News by the Daumier-Register
DAUMIER: ATTUALITÀ E VARIETÀ. Daumier Exhibition in Switzerland
An important Daumier exhibition is taking place in Bellinzona, Switzerland, in the italian speaking canton Ticino: DAUMIER: ATTUALITÀ E VARIETÀ - www.villacedri.ch/home The exhibition features ca. 180 lithographs, wood engravings, drawings and sculptures by Daumier, a great number of them [...]
DR39 – A WELL-KNOWN LITHOGRAPH UNEARTHED IN AN UNEXPECTED PLACE
Most Daumier collectors are familiar with „LES BLANCHISSEURS“ (DR39), today one of the most cherished lithographs by Daumier. It was deposited with the French Authorities on August 22, 1832 and as a consequence Daumier´s suspended prison sentence was re-activated. Take [...]
WATERMARKS IN DAUMIER’S DRAWINGS
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 [...]
DEATH AND MR PICKWICK
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 [...]
Happy Birthday Honoré Daumier
ABOUT THE PAITING DR7189 A blog was posted on the Internet ( blog.phillipscollection.org/2014/02/26/happy-birthday-honore-daumier/ ) on Feb. 26, 2014 under the title "Happy Birthday Honoré Daumier" showing details of a technical study undertaken by painting conservator Elizabeth Steele in 1999 [...]
DAUMIER SCULPTURES ARE ONLINE!
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, [...]