News by the Daumier-Register
MONSIEUR DAUMIER… YOU ARE FIRED!
"Dear Monsier Daumier….. I am sorry, but you are fired." It happens to the best, as we all know. To Daumier, it happened in February1860. His boss, Charles Philipon, who may have been better as an administrator of the Charivari [...]
DAUMIER’S WOOD ENGRAVINGS
Here below is a highly interesting article about Daumier’s wood engravings from the year 1926 by M. H. DANIELS, then at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. We feel that her thoughts and observations are still today invaluable to the [...]
RUE TRANSNONAIN as seen by André Gill and Daumier and in a PRIVATE DAUMIER EXHIBITION
André Gill (17 October 1840—1 May 1885) was a French caricaturist and fellow artist to Daumier. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes in Paris, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to [...]
6 WOOD ENGRAVINGS RE-DISCOVERED
Six Daumier wood engravings never registered in a work catalogue! (Illustrations at the end of the article) Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an influential curator, art historian, writer and photographer. He worked at the MOMA from 1937 on and eventually became [...]
DAUMIER IN CHINA
A delightful new website has just come out by a private collector, Dr. Pei-Yuan Han: www.daumierinchina.com The website shows dedication and great admiration of the author towards Daumier and his series "En Chine". Being of Chinese background, Dr. Han had [...]
NEW BOOK ON DAUMIER by Ségolène Le Men
„Daumier et la Caricature“, by Ségolène Le Men, Ed. Citadelles & Mazenod, Oaris, ISBN 978 2 85 088270 8. In French. Ms. Ségolène Le Men, professor of Art History and eminent Daumier scholar at the Paris X-Nanterre University, published her [...]