Lot 5
  • 5

Honoré Daumier 1808-1879

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Honoré Daumier
  • L'Homme d'Affaires
  • inscribed h.D and with the C. Valsuani foundry mark (on side and back of base); numbered 24/30 (on the underside)
  • bronze with brown/black patina
  • height: 7 5/8 in.
  • 19.2 cm.

Provenance

Anthony Cassatt, father of the present owner
Thence by descent

Literature

Maurice Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur 1808-1879, Geneva, 1952, no. 40, pp. 40, 79, p.  247 (terracotta illustrated)
Marcel Lecompte, Daumier Sculpteur, Les Figurines et Autres Sculptures, Paris, 1979, no. 41 (another cast illustrated)
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, a Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1969, no. 53, pp. 226-227, plate 53b (another cast illustrated)

Condition

generally good condition, surface somewhat soiled, slight rubbing to patina at extremities
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