There has been an ongoing discussion whether Daumier had used paper with watermarks for his drawings. Some authors pointed out that high quality paper would have been too expensive for him. For his numerous sketches Daumier mainly used “scrap paper [...]

A new novel about the life of British caricaturist Robert Seymour and the origins of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers. Seymour is best remembered today as the first illustrator of Dickens's The Pickwick Papers. Daumier was fully aware of Seymour’s work, as [...]

It's finally here! Daumier's sculptures are online as an integrated part of the DAUMIER REGISTER. This complex and elaborate section of the catalog raisonné has taken up more time than expected, but we hope that the effort was worthwhile. Unfortunately, [...]

At the beginning of this summer we introduced to you our new section of the DAUMIER REGISTER’S: "New Research Results". We had started off with the first 50 articles, noting that many Daumier collectors and scholars were amazed about the [...]

Van Gogh did it…. Degas did it…. but Eisenstein? We are all aware that Degas, Cézanne and van Gogh collected Daumier prints. Van Gogh’s enthusiasm even went so far as to copy one of Daumier’s wood engravings, “Les Quatre Ages” [...]