Lot 4
  • 4

Honoré Daumier 1808-1879

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Honoré Daumier
  • Le Poete
  • inscribed hD and with the C. Valsuani foundry mark (on back of base); numbered twice 19/30 (on the underside)
  • bronze with brown/black patina
  • height: 6 1/8 in.
  • 15.4 cm.

Provenance

Anthony Cassatt, father of the present owner
Thence by descent

Literature

Maurice Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur 1808-1879, Geneva, 1952, no. 42, pp. 42, p. 251 (terracotta illustrated)
Marcel Lecompte, Daumier Sculpteur, Les Figurines et Autres Sculptures, Paris, 1979, no. 43 (another cast illustrated)
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, a Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1969, no. 57, pp. 234-235, plate 57b (another cast illustrated)

Condition

generally good condition, surface soiled, slight rubbing to patina at extremities, tape residue around foundry mark
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