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Property from an Historic British Collection

Honoré Daumier

Le dessinateur

Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Historic British Collection

Honoré Daumier

1810 - 1879

Le dessinateur


signed h. Daumier (upper right) and h.D. (lower right)

oil on panel

14.3 by 13.2cm., 5⅝ by 5¼in.

Framed: 26.5 by 25.4cm., 10⅜ by 10in.

Painted circa 1852-55.

Guyotin, Paris (acquired by 1878)

Gropengiesser, Berlin

Wildenstein and Co., New York

Florence J. Gould (sold by her estate: Sotheby's, New York, 24th April 1985, lot 20)

JPL Fine Arts, London (purchased at the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Arsénè Alexandre, Honoré Daumier - L'Homme et l'Œuvre, Paris, 1888, p. 374

Karl Eric Maison, Honoré DaumierCatalogue raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Paris, 1968, vol. I, no. I-63, illustrated pl. 86

Luigi Barzini & Gabriele Mandel, L’opera pittorica completa di Daumier, Milan, 1971, no. 77, illustrated p. 94