News by the Daumier-Register
A LETTER FROM PRISON
April 28, 2004 A letter from Honoré Daumier has come to our attention just now. It is signed and undated, most likely Daumier wrote it in the second half of 1832, when he was arrested and sent to prison at [...]
PRINTER VERSUS CENSOR: DR 3484
April 19, 2004 We would like to present to you this time an extremely rare print, which has never been published. You will see two versions of the same print, both are unique. The first one is part of the [...]
NEWS FROM DAUMIER’S GRAVE
April 15, 2004 Dear Daumier- Friend, For those of you who participated in the restoration program of Daumier’s grave at Père Lachaise in Paris, here some good news: the grave site has been cleaned up, and the path way around [...]
ANOTHER DAUMIER DISCOVERY!
April 5, 2004 DR 755 We are thrilled to show here again a very rare print, which in this form has rarely ever been seen: DR 755 from the Rosenwald Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [...]
LATEST DAUMIER DISCOVERIES.
March 23, 2004 DR 915 We are delighted to be able to show you this beautiful and unique print from the Rosenwald collection at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. This is the first of four known states with handwritten [...]
THE FRENCH HAVE JOKES, BUT DO THEY HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR?
February 2, 2004 VERY DROLL DECEMBER 18TH 2003 The French have jokes, but do they have a sense of humour? This scene in the film "Ridicule", by Patrice Leconte, shows a marquis at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles [...]