News by the Daumier-Register
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 [...]
DAUMIER: FAKES AND IMITATIONS
Over the years, while providing expertise of Daumier oil paintings, we had the opportunity to discover a great number of copies / imitations / fakes. Many works date back to Daumier's time; in fact Daumier himself complained about an ever [...]
DAUMIER AND POVERTY
Did Daumier die as a poor man? This question has often been asked and opinions vary between two extremes. To get an impression at some costs of everyday life in Daumier's time we listed some prices on this website (Daumier's [...]