Lot Details
Lot 12
Honore Daumier
French, 1808-1879
Le Valet de Chambre; Le Bourgeois en Promenade; L'Amateur d'Art, Verse and Le Provincial a Paris: Four
Each signed h. D., stamped with foundry mark cire perdue C. Valsuani and numbered from an edition of 30
Bronze with brown/black patina, raised on marble a base
Heights 4 7/8; 6 1/2; 6 3/16 and 7 inches, respectively
Provenance:
Sale, Gallery 68, Jun. 15-16, 1987
Literature:
Maurice Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur, 1808-1879, Catalogue Raisonne, Geneva, 1952, nos. 43, 52, and 59, other casts illus.
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, a Critical and Comparative Study, Harvard, 1969, pp. 205-208 (discussion of the figurines)
R. Butler and S. Glover Lindsay, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, (National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues), Princeton, 2000, pp. 206-212, illus. of the other casts
C The Collection of Dr. Thomas Chua
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