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Honoré Daumier

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Honoré Daumier
  • La consultation (Le médecin et son malade - Le malade imaginaire- La famille à table)
  • Charcoal and black crayon on paper
  • 12 by 14 3/4 in.
  • 30.5 by 37.5 cm

Provenance

Roger Marx, Paris (and sold: Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, May 11, 1914, lot 116, titled Le malade imaginaire and with incorrect dimensions)
Mme. Salvatore Meyer
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Mrs. Frederick C. Havemeyer, New York
Sale: Sotheby's, London, October 16, 1991, lot 4
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, De Watteau à Cézanne, 1951, no. 103
Lausanne, Galerie d'Art Ancien, De David à Cézanne, 1953, no. 59
Paris, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Daumier, 1961, no. 5

Literature

Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, no. 68c (titled Le médecin et son malade and with incorrect dimensions)
Karl Eric Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, watercolours and drawings, vol. II, New York, 1968, no. 405, illustrated pl. 137

Condition

In generally fair condition; sheet has uneven edges with a dog eared hard crease to the lower left, a loss of paper at the lower center edge, a one and a half inch tear to the upper right corner, a few spots of foxing, light stain from the current matting and additional light staining from the previous matting, acidic mat to all edges. Verso: hinged by two pieces of white tape at upper edge, remnants of previous hinges at upper edge, similar condition to recto
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