HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)

Lot 837
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Lot 837 | HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)
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HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)

Le Drame

signed with initials 'h.D.' (lower right)

oil on canvas

8 ¼ x 13 ½ in. (21 x 34.2 cm.)





Provenance

Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (by 1916).

Max Braunthal, Frankfurt-am-Main and Paris (acquired from the above 18 May 1926, until at least April 1939).

with Sam Salz, Paris (acquired from the above, 1939).

Wildenstein & Co. Ltd, London (acquired from the above, 13 May 1939).

Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above).

Oliver B. James, Phoenix (acquired from the above, June 1952); Estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 19 October 1955, lot 45.

Acquired by the family of the present owners, circa 1955.



Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and heirs of Max Braunthal. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.



Literature

Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, 1916 (illustrated, pl. 7).

E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, no. 104A (illustrated, pl. 56).

"A Typical Example of a Great Frenchman's Art" in The Art News, 29 December 1923, vol. XXII, no. 12,p. 4 (illustrated; titled Théâtre).

M.T. Sadleir, Daumier: The Man and The Artist, London, 1924 (illustrated, pl. 11).

E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, New York, 1927, p. 51, no. 134a (illustrated, pl. 134; with incorrect dimensions).

J. Adhémar, Honoré Daumier, Paris, 1954, p. 123.

K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, New York, 1968, vol. I, p. 205, no. II-45 (illustrated, pl. 197; with incorrect cataloguing).

G. Mandel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Daumier, Paris, 1972, p. 104, no. 188 (illustrated; with incorrect cataloguing).



Exhibited

Kunstgebäude Stuttgart, Grosse Kunstausstellung, May-October 1913, p. 61, no. 312.



Further details

This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement of K.E. Maison's Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Daumier, currently being prepared by the Comité Honoré Daumier.
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