News by the Daumier-Register
LE CHARIVARI BELGE – Recent Research Results
October 1, 2004 Apart from the CHARIVARI in Paris there also existed a CHARIVARI BELGE, printed and edited in Brussels, Belgium, between May 16, 1838 and April 10, 1841. In the 1850’s it reappeared under the name: LE CHARIVARI – [...]
Tobu Museum Japan closed.
August 25, 2004 Another museum to fall victim to the Bubble, the Tobu Museum of Art at the Tobu Department Store in Ikebukuro, Japan, has shut its doors in 2003. But before it closed, the museum showed a series of [...]
The “Web Site of the Week”
August 17, 2004 From the website: CAFÉ METROPOLE PARIS on April 26, 2004 www.metropoleparis.com/2004/918/918cafe.html QUOTE "The Web Site of the Week This item about Honoré Daumier is here instead of in the wasteland of the 'count–downs' because this famous cartoonist [...]
Third Class Carriage – A Treasure Unearthed!
July 19, 2004 To find a “lost” Daumier work doesn’t happen too often. We are therefore delighted to present here a remarkable drawing by Daumier. Over the last 50 years this important and published drawing has been declared as lost [...]
“Daumier and Exoticism” (Satirizing the French and the Foreign). New book on the market!
July 6, 2004 An important book on Daumier has just appeared on the market. Surely not the coffee-table quality one so often finds in bookstores, but a publication which really should have been made available in 1989 when the author [...]
Press On!
July 1, 2004 Daumier and Impressions of the 19th Century, A Glimpse Into Printmaking, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, New Haven CT Honore Daumier was a political cartoonist before that term had been invented. A scurrilous puncturer of authority figures, [...]