ID 1226106
Lot 60 | HONORÉ DAUMIER (FRENCH, 1808-1879)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 200 000
Les buveurs de bière
signed 'h. Daumier' (lower left)
oil on panel
10 ¼ x 12 1/8 in. (26 x 30.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1860.
Provenance
M. Ch. Salomon.
Toulouse-Lautrec (?).
Mme. Albert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris, France.
Dr Fritz Nathan, Zollikon, Zurich, Switzerland, and by descent to the present owner.
At one time handled by the late dealer Sam Salz, New York, New York.
Literature
A. Alexandre, Honoré Daumier, l'homme et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1888, p. 375.
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, incl. supplement, Munich, 1923, no. 272, p. 111.
J. Fontainas, La Peinture de Daumier. Ars graphica; etudes et documents, Paris, 1923, pl. 18, illustrated.
E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, incl. supplement, Munich, 1930, no. 35b, illustrated.
B. Fleischmann, Honoré Daumier, Gemälde, Graphik, Vienna 1938 (French edition by Sachs, Maurice), pl. 84, illustrated.
J. Lassaigne, Daumier, New York and Paris, 1938, pl. 42, illustrated.
J. Lassaigne, Formes et Couleurs, vol. III/IV, 1945, p. 381.
P. Courthion, 'Daumier raconté par lui-même et par ses amis', Vésenaz-Genève, P. Cailler, 1945, p. 268, illustrated.
C. Scweicher, 'Daumier', Paris, Somogy, Ars Mundi, 1953, pl. 8.
G. Besson, 'Honoré Daumier', Paris, Cercle d'Art, 1959, pl. XLV, illustrated.
G. Besson, Daumier Paintings and Drawings, London, 1961, no. 30, p. 32, pl. 7c, illustrated.
R. Rey, Daumier, Library of Great Painters, New York, 1965, pp. 102-103, illustrated.
K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, 2 vols., Paris, 1967, I-155, pl. 78.
G. Mandel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Daumier, Paris, 1972, no. 203.
P. Cabanne, Honoré Daumier, Paris, 1999, p. 144, illustrated.
Nathan, F. & P, Die Kunst des Handels, Tübinger Kunsthalle, 2005, p. 183, no. 131, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Durand Ruel, Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier, 15.6.1878, no. 90.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Cent Chefs-d’Oeuvre de l’Ecole Française, Vingt Peintres du 19e Siècle, 2- 31. Mai, 1910, no. 52.
Paris, Orangerie, Exposition Daumier, 1934, no. 8.
Philadelphia, 1937, no. 4.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Europäische Meister, June - July 1955, no. 60.
Paris, Petit Palais, De Géricault à Matisse: Chefs d'oeuvre français des collections Suisses, March-May 1959, no. 37.
London, Tate Gallery, Daumier: paintings and drawings. An exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, June-July 1961, no. 30.
Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Die Welt des Impressionismus, 29 June-29 September 1963, no. 29.
Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Die Kunst des Handelns: Meisterwerke des 14. bis 20, Jahrhunderts bei Fritz und Pether Nathan, September 2005-January 2006, unnumbered.
Artist: | Honore Daumier (1808 - 1879) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Impressionism, Romanticism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Honore Daumier (1808 - 1879) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Impressionism, Romanticism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Address of auction |
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