News by the Daumier-Register
REPRINT BY THE DAUMIER REGISTER
In 2012 The Daumier Register in preparation for a Daumier exhibition in Switzerland produced a reprint of Daumier’s only known etching, “The Old Man” (see: DR3955). The etching had been published in Champfleury's work from the copper original plate [...]
DAUMIER PORTRAIT: A SCULPTURE BY A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
This Spring (2012) Prof. Gertrud Krüskemper, an artist and art historian from Düsseldorf, Germany, contacted us to inform us that she was planning to do a portrait sculpture of Daumier. In order to get to know Daumier from "all sides" [...]
DAUMIER MUST NOT DIE A SECOND TIME!
AN EMERGENCY SITUATION FOR THE DAUMIER REGISTER. As we all know there are days of joy and days of sorrow in life... Ten years ago, when we started the DAUMIER REGISTER, it was clear to us that there would never [...]
ORIGINAL OR FAKE? That is the question.
Today we would like to engage those collectors who own either sculptures "attributed to Daumier" or lithographs based on the unbaked clay models. Some of those are now part of the Musée d’Orsay collection in Paris. This January (2012) a [...]
NEW DAUMIER BOOK BY MICHEL MELOT
A new book on Daumier will be launched these days by Michel Melot, with the title: “Éloge de Daumier”. The book, which is being published by ‘Pagine d'Arte’, 2012 in Lugano, Switzerland, is the latest research done by the author. [...]
DAUMIER OBITUARY BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
133 years ago today - on February 11, 1879 - Honoré Daumier died in his house in Valmondois, France in the presence of his wife and a few friends. We feel that this would be a good moment to remember [...]