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Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879
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Description
- Honoré Daumier
- L'HOMME D'AFFAIRES
- inscribed h.D., stamped with the foundry mark D. Valsuani, Cire Perdue and numbered 7/30
- bronze
- height: 19.5cm.; 7 5/8 in.
- Conceived circa 1840 and cast circa 1950 in a numbered edition of 30 plus 4 Artist's proofs, this is a posthumous cast.
Provenance
Acquired by the father of the present owners in the 1950s
Literature
Maurice Gobin, Daumier, Sculpteur 1808-1879, Geneva, 1952, p. 247, no. 40, illustration of the plaster cast
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, A Critical and Comparative Study, Harvard, 1969, p. 226, no. 53b, illustration of another cast
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, A Critical and Comparative Study, Harvard, 1969, p. 226, no. 53b, illustration of another cast