BUSINESSMEN AND FINANCE (ROBERT MACAIRE)

Daumier, Honore (Adhermar, Jean - Preface, etc)

ISBN 10: 0867100540 / ISBN 13: 9780867100549

Published by Vilo Inc Pub, NY, 1983

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144 pp., Illus, Orig Brn Hardback, Gilt Title (Bright), Folio, sm owner inscription else Fine in Near Fine DJ, Assumed 1st ed.

Seller Inventory # 117411

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BUSINESSMEN AND FINANCE (ROBERT MACAIRE)
• Publisher: Vilo Inc Pub, NY
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0867100540
• ISBN 13: 9780867100549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Honore Daumier
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • food and drink

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Synopsis

The first known lithograph by Daumier dates from 1822. By 1873 he had produced nearly 4,000 lithographs, of which the most famous, undoubtedly, were the series 'Lawyers and Justice (1845-1848) and 'Doctors and Medicine.' In 1836, Daumier, whose political views had earned him a prison sentence, was forced, by the introduction of new press control laws, to abandon political satire. He turned instead to satirical comment on the bourgeoisie and Parisian life, and in this field his touch was at its vitriolic best.In 1848, after producing another thousand or so woodcut engravings, he turned his energies towards oil painting. Delacroix and Manet were amongst his admirers and he can be said to have paved he way for the Impressionists. Nevertheless, his caricatures undoubtedly constitute the main body of his work. Under his sure hand the characters of social and professional life of his day come through to us as alive as they were a century or more ago.His militant activities cut short by Napoleon the Third's 'coup d'etat' of December 1851, Daumier died, in 1879, almost blind and in straitened circumstances.