News by the Daumier-Register
NEW RESEARCH RESULTS
It may not quite be a “Daumier Code”….. but did you know that there are many hidden messages in Daumier's lithographs besides the well-known pear shape symbolizing Louis-Philippe and thus avoiding censorship rejection? There are a number of obvious symbols [...]
HOMMAGE TO DAUMIER BY THE CHARIVARI IN 1864
The artists of the Charivari pay hommage to Daumier upon his return to the newspaper in 1864 with a banquet: La rentrée de Daumier au Charivari vient d'être fêtée dans un banquet où les célébrités de toutes sortes se [...]
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 [...]