Lot 1
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Honoré Daumier 1808-1879

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Honoré Daumier
  • L'Homme à Tête Plate (Pelet de la Lozère)
  • with the MLG mark and stamped BRONZE (on the back); numbered 18/25 in a circle (on the interior of the cast)

  • bronze with dark olive brown patina
  • Height: 5 1/4 in.
  • 13.4 cm.

Literature

Maurice Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur 1808-1879, Geneva, 1952, no. 13, p. 191 (terracotta illustrated)
Sagot-le Garrec, Daumier Sculpteur, Les Busts des Parlimentaires, Paris, 1979, no. 13 (terracotta illustrated)
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, a Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1969, no. 34, pp. 152-154, pl. 34c (another cast illustrated)

Condition

Generally good condition, patina possibly refreshed, a few areas of slight rubbing to extremities
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