Daumier Drawings (Repost)
Daumier Drawings by Colta Ives, Margaret Stuffmann, Martin Sonnabend
Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1993 | ISBN: 0300085893, 0810964236 | English | 280 pages | PDF | 43 MB
Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1993 | ISBN: 0300085893, 0810964236 | English | 280 pages | PDF | 43 MB
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) is best known as the nimble caricaturist of French politics and the habits of the bourgeoisie. The nearly 4,000 lithographs he created for the Parisian press have long been appreciated as magic windows on the perils and follies of everyday life and continue to be widely admired. However, it is in his rarer and less famous drawings and watercolors, the private work he made for himself and a very limited audience, that Daumier most clearly emerges as an artist of exceptional genius. Indeed, it was on the strength of his skill as a draftsman that Baudelaire declared Daumier the equal of Ingres and Delacroix.