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HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)

Lot 628
13.05.2023 19:30UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 150 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 950085
Lot 628 | HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)

Le Drame

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

oil on canvas

8 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (21 x 34.2 cm.)





Provenance

Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (by 1916 and until at least 1927).

E.J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam.

Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (by 1947).

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.



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," The Art News, vol. XXII, no. 12, 29 December 1923, p. 4 (illustrated; titled Theatre).

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 dimensions and 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.



Post lot text

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.
Artist:Honore Daumier (1808 - 1879)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Impressionism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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