Daumier Drawings

Daumier Drawings

Author: Colta Feller Ives

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0870996533

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By combining Daumier's drawings with selected examples of his paintings, prints, and bronzes, this book traces the evolution of the artist's succinct and emphatically expressive style from its roots in the European tradition exemplified by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Fragonard to its modern manifestations in the works of Degas, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Beckmann. In the course of his long and productive career Daumier returned again and again to favorite themes, often after considerable lapses of time. Thus the works here are grouped by their subject matter into six sections: studies of individual figures and faces; narrative scenes inspired by history or literature; views of contemporary urban and domestic life; dramatic portrayals of lawyers in court; depictions of street performers; and episodes in the wanderings of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.


The Drawings of Daumier and Millet

The Drawings of Daumier and Millet

Author: Bruce Laughton

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780300047646

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Daumier and Millet, two of the most important French artists of the mid 19th century, each produced drawings that were innovative and influential. This book by Bruce Laughton - a critical and comparative study of these drawings - investigates the artistic relationship that existed between Daumier and Millet. Laughton suggests that the two worked at a critical phase in the development of drawing as a language of expression in French art and that a study of their work reveals how new methods of conception and perception in drawing came about.


Daumier and Exoticism

Daumier and Exoticism

Author: Elizabeth C. Childs

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780820469454

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Best known as a satirist of Parisian politics and daily life, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific caricaturist. This book is the first to examine the role of exoticism in his art, and to offer a detailed history of the journal Le Charivari in which the lithographs appeared. These satires of China, Haiti, the United States, Africa, and the Middle East not only target the theater of international politics, but also draw on a broad range of physical stereotypes supported by contemporary ideas about race and cultural difference. In an art of comic inversion, Daumier used the exotic to expose the foibles and pretensions of the Parisian bourgeoisie. A pacifist and a Republican, Daumier also satirized the non-European world in order to covertly attack the imperialism of Napoléon III in an age of press censorship. Idealistic as well as pragmatic, he used humor to stage political critique as well as to envision a more unified and compassionate world.


Honoré Daumier

Honoré Daumier

Author: Bruce Laughton

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0300069456

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The life and work of one of the most productive and renowned French artists of the nineteenth century is examined in this beautiful book. Known primarily in his own time for the penetrating social and political commentary of his cartoons, Daumier is now equally admired for his drawings, watercolours, and oil paintings. Bruce Laughton draws on new material to present the most comprehensive treatment of this multi-faceted artist in two decades. Laughton traces Daumier's professional life: his early career as a lithographer-cartoonist, when his fame as a social satirist spread through all classes of French citizens; his attempts to change direction as an 'artist-peintre' with the advent of the Second French Republic; his painstaking production of watercolours for connoisseurs (and his simultaneous parody of these people); and then the independent development of his oil painting techniques alongside his continued production of lithographs and designs for wood engravings. Laughton also discusses Daumier's private life, investigating, for example, his view of the lawcourts, the significance of his 'Saltimbanques' or wandering entertainers, and the personal symbolism of his images of Don Quixote. In conclusion Laughton describes Daumier's late career, which included both personal disasters and artistic achievements and ended in the most unsung retirement of any artist of comparable stature in the nineteenth century. An appendix to the book provides transcriptions and commentary on five of Daumier's account books, which give clues about how he lived and how his works were regarded.


Daumier, 120 Great Lithographs

Daumier, 120 Great Lithographs

Author: Honoré Daumier

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780486235127

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Popular lithographic series on lawyers, on married life, on liberated women, etc. Includes Un Héros de Juillet, Mai 1831, La Crise Actuelle Se Complique!, Le Passé. Le Présent. L'venir, Melle Etienne-Joconde-Cunégonde-Bécassine de Constitutionnel, Voyage À Travers Les Populations Empressées, Rue Transnonain, La Tentation, Quand Le Diable Devint Vieux, and more.


Law and Justice

Law and Justice

Author: Honoré Daumier

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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A handsomely produced collection of plates by Daumier that originally appeared in the "Charivari" between 1845 and 1848 of judges, lawyers, their clients and other gentlemen of the Law and Justice. The quality of the reproductions in this printing were so good that the publishers altered their size so no that no claims of forgery could be made


Master Drawings Rediscovered

Master Drawings Rediscovered

Author: Tatʹjana Afanasʹevna Ilatovskaja (Kuratorin.)

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Recently the art world learned that for nearly 50 years the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg had been holding a major trove of work from German private collections--treasures which were generally thought to have been lost or destroyed. This splendid volume reveals a magnificent collection of these works, including glories by Goya, Daumier, Menzel, Cezanne, and Toulouse-Lactrec. 200 illustrations, 89 in color.