The Rockefellers, who own one Daumier painting DR7040 and five Daumier drawings, just sold their painting at Christie's for 500’000 $. One of their drawings, the beautiful watercolour showing two lawyers DR10597 changed hands for a stunning 2,2 million $, [...]

It is a well known fact that Daumier was a prolific draftsman creating more than a thousand drawings on paper, not to mention his 4000 lithographs and 1000 wood engravings. Collectors and museums are also aware of the only etching [...]

On Jan. 17, 1895 the newspaper Le Radical published an obituary for Mme Daumier who had died two days earlier. It is very moving to read how unscrupulous art dealers have bought the remaining artworks of the Master at bargain [...]

The Daumier Register is the centre of research on works by Honoré Daumier and supplies appraisals and authentications to museums, auction houses and collectors. Daumier is one of the most frequently copied artists of the 19th century. Already during his [...]