Daumier 1808-1879 - Hardcover

Loyrette, Henry; Pantazzi, Professor Michael; Le Men, Segolene; Papet, Edouard; Lobstein, Dominique; Melot, Michel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300083599 ISBN 13: 9780300083590

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000

Honore-Victorin Daumier (1808-79) was loved and loathed for his biting satires of contemporary life and human malice. This is the catalogue for the first retrospective of his work since 1878 and pulls together works on similar subjects for the first time. Daumier was very much an artists' artist, collected by artists like Corot, Degas, and Gauguin and inspiration to artists like Picasso. Daumier's art gave voice to universal subjects and themes by depicting a France struggling with its unfolding history. It is a well-known irony that Daumier is collected widely among lawyers, practitioners of a profession that he scorned. This book is lavishly produced, with almost every of 369 plates in color.

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About the Author:

Henri Loyrette is director of the Musie d'Orsay. Michael Pantazzi is curator of European and American Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Sigolhne Le Men is professor of contemporary art history and director of the art history department at the Universiti de Paris-X, Nanterre. Idouard Papet is curator and Dominique Lobstein is charge d'etudes documentaires at the Musie d'Orsay. Michel Melot is conservateur giniral des bibliothhques at the Ministhre de la Culture et de la Communication, Direction du Patrimoine, France, and author of The Impressonist Print (ISBN 0 300 06792 5, #50.00), also published by Yale University Press.

Review:

"An important work. . . . This catalog will become a benchmark in all research concerning Daumier.." -- Choice

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