Paolo Boni’s workshop, Vallauris, inventory ongoing, 2017 © Carla Boni

Paolo Boni’s Archives

For a dozen years, first with Paolo Boni and then with the rights’ holders and Mathilde Hatzenberger’s assistance – a gallery owner in Brussels – the graphic and documentary archives have been regrouped throughout the years in the suburbs of Paris.

The archives were before located:
– in the Boccagnello family house and in Paolo Boni’s brother’s garage, Raffaello Boni, a marble artisan in Vicchio, a town in the Mugello region of Tuscany, Paolo Boni’s birthplace.
– In the Morère street apartment, Paris 14th district, that was used as a first workshop when Paolo Boni and his wife Cuchi White arrived in Paris in 1954.
– In the Impasse du Rouet workshop, Paris 14th district, where Paolo Boni started working in the 1960s.
– In the Vallauris workshop, where he worked for half the year from the 1970s.

The Archives in Numbers

Paintings: 756 paintings, of which 314 are acrylic paintings and 432 are oil paintings
Graphisculptures: 519
Cut-up and painted wood: 247
Sculptures: 103
Bas-reliefs: 63
Artworks on paper: 2100

Personal library
Books
Periodicals
Exhibition catalogues
Poster

Personal and professional archives (a thousand documents currently being inventoried): 
Letters
Publication documents
Exhibition openings invitations
Publishing and distribution contracts
Copyright statements
Press files
Identity or official documents
Family pictures
Photographed works, contact sheets and black & white film

Paolo Boni in Vicchio during the inventory in August 2015 © Carla Boni