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Honoré Daumier was a French painter and printmaker best known for his caricatures critiquing and satirizing society and politics in 19th-century France. His two most famous characters were the ...
Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs (finding aid here). While Daumier’s works (which, in addition to lithographs, include numerous paintings, drawings, sculptures and wood engravings) ...
Last week the serious side of Honore Daumier was on view at Lon don’s Tate Gallery in 231 paintings and drawings, the biggest Daumier show in 60 years. Daumier’s reputation as a painter has ...
For me, a visit to this lower floor requires a brief pilgrimage to the glass case containing small bronze busts, based on caricatures by Honoré Daumier ... and the paintings of Eugene Delacroix.
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) in Spain and Honore Daumier (1808-1879) in France are the two artistic masters in the western world whose paintings, prints, etchings, engravings and drawings most ...
a former prints and drawings curator at the Städel who encouraged him to extend his collection beyond Daumier’s political cartoons to paintings, drawings and sculptures, and put him in touch ...
There is so much physical awkwardness in Daumier's figures, so many hulking, slumped, wrenched-awry forms. What is more, the paintings are almost never highly finished. They often look slightly ...
1867-1868) by Honore Daumier Daumier wasn’t one for the luscious facture of many French artists. The unfinished look of almost all his paintings suggest they were abandoned before completion ...
Honore Daumier (1808-1879) consistently supported the left's anti-clericalist, anti-monarchist and anti-imperialist struggles for democracy and social justice. Wounded in the 1830 revolution, ...
Was Honoré Daumier (1808-1879 ... This sense of strangeness extends to many of his paintings. Eschewing the typical, nineteenth-century route of grand historical themes, he represented ...