HONORÉ DAUMIER (MARSEILLE 1808-1879 VALMONDOIS) - photo 1
HONORÉ DAUMIER (MARSEILLE 1808-1879 VALMONDOIS) - photo 2

HONORÉ DAUMIER (MARSEILLE 1808-1879 VALMONDOIS)

Lot 110
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
ID 1389958
Lot 110 | HONORÉ DAUMIER (MARSEILLE 1808-1879 VALMONDOIS)
Estimate value
€ 25 000 – 35 000
HONORÉ DAUMIER (MARSEILLE 1808-1879 VALMONDOIS)
Fumeur allumant sa pipe
Plume et encre brune, lavis brun
13,8 x 11,1 cm (5 ½ x 4 3/8 in.)




Provenance

Roger Leybold, Paris.
Victor Simon; vente Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 mai 1939, lot 40.




Literature

K.E. Maison, Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, watercolours and drawings, Paris, 1968, n° 313, ill.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Mai-Juin 1958, p. 347, fig.7



Exhibited

Daumier: Paintings and Drawings, Londres, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1961(non mentionné dans ce catalogue).
Daumier, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France,1958, n°175.



Further details

An indefatigable caricaturist of his contemporaries, Daumier was a key artist of the 19th century, influential far beyond the press for which he worked. The author of a considerable body of graphic and lithographic work, he also produced a body of paintings. The present sheet is faithful to the artist's preferred style and subjects. His attention to popular figures is expressed here with empathetic irony, in a drawing of characteristic vivacity. While the high eyebrows, round eyes and concentrically undulating lines are Daumier's hallmarks, the artist's debt to Rembrandt is clear: not only do the brown washes, the wisps of smoke and the theatrical chiaroscuro mark a reference to the master, but the very subject of the smoker evokes an iconography dear to the Dutch Golden Age. This drawing is almost identical to a larger composition of three men around a fire entitled Chasseurs se chauffant, in which one of the protagonists lights his pipe, creating a cloud of smoke, like the present drawing (private collection; K.E. Maison, Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, watercolours and drawings, Paris, 1968, no. 322).
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