ID 1334525
Lot 271 | HONORE DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 20 000
Une grand'maman
signed with initials 'h.D.' (lower left)
pen and black ink and ink wash on paper laid down on paper
9 5/8 x 12 in. (24.4 x 30.5 cm.)
Provenance
Mme Pierre Bureau, Paris (by 1878).
Paul Bureau, Paris (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 20 May 1927, lot 55.
Galerien Matthiesen, Berlin (acquired at the above sale).
Otto Gerstenberg, Berlin.
Margarethe Scharf, Berlin (by descent from the above, 1935).
Dieter Scharf, Hamburg (by descent from the above, 1961).
Galerie Nathan, Zurich.
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired from the above, 1963).
Rodolphe and Williamina Meyer de Schauensee, Devon, Pennsylvania (by 1968); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 15 November 1990, lot 107.
Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2015, lot 182.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
A. Alexandre, Honoré Daumier: L'homme et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1888, p. 377.
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Paris, 1914, p. 20, no. 295 (titled Mère et enfant).
E. Fuchs, ed., Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1927, p. 56, no. 228a (illustrated).
R. Escholier, Daumier, Paris, 1930, p. 262, no. 70 (illustrated).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1967, vol. II, p. 242, no. 727 (illustrated, pl. 286).
B. Laughton, Honoré Daumier, New Haven, 1996, p. 120 (illustrated, fig. 151).
A. Pophanken and F. Billeter, Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz
vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin, 2001, p. 179.
J. Scharf et al., Die historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg, Ostfildern, 2012, vol. I, pp. 226 and 239, no. 11 and vol. II, p. 41, no. 182 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Expositions des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier, 1878, p. 64, no. 122 (with incorrect dimensions).
Paris, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Daumier, 1901, p. 30, no. 139 (with incorrect dimensions).
Artist: | Honore Daumier (1808 - 1879) |
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Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
Artist: | Honore Daumier (1808 - 1879) |
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Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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