Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

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Property from the Collection of Henry Moore

Honoré Daumier

Le banc des avocats

Lot Closed

March 26, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Henry Moore

Honoré Daumier

1810 - 1879

Le banc des avocats

watercolour and pen and ink on paper

17.5 by 17.5cm., 6⅞ by 6⅞in.

Framed: 37.5 by 40cm., 14¾ by 15¾in.

This work is sold pursuant to a settlement between the current owner and the heirs of Anna Caspari.

Georg Caspari, Munich (acquired by 1930)

Anna Caspari, Munich (by descent from the above. Transferred as collateral to the Dresdner Bank on 31st July 1933 and subsequently subject to forced sale)

Adam Brothers, London (acquired by 1940)

Carstairs Gallery, New York (acquired by 1954)

Mr Edwin C. Vogel, New York (acquired by 1959)

Estate of Edwin C. Vogel, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1973)

Henry Moore, London

Thence by descent to the present owner

Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, no. 19Ia, illustrated p. 191 (with incorrect medium and incorrect measurements)
K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1967, vol. II, no. 606, illustrated pl. 228 (with incorrect measurements)