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Daumier Drawings

Colta Feller IvesMargret StuffmannMartin SonnabendMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

出版	Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992
主題	Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / Individual Artists / General
ISBN	08709965419780870996542
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pMKmQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Honore Daumier (1808-1879) is best known as the nimble caricaturist of French politics and the habits of the bourgeoisie. The nearly 4,000 lithographs he created for the Parisian press have long been appreciated as magic windows on the perils and follies of everyday life and continue to be widely admired. However, it is in his rarer and less famous drawings and watercolors, the private work he made for himself and a very limited audience, that Daumier most clearly emerges as an artist of exceptional genius. Indeed, it was on the strength of his skill as a draughtsman that Baudelaire declared Daumier the equal of Ingres and Delacroix. This volume accompanies an exhibition at the Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, offering the most extensive display of Daumier's drawings since the Paris retrospectives of 1901 and 1934. Featuring about 150 works from twenty of the world's foremost museums and from private collections, it includes casual sketches produced by the artist to vent his restless imagination as well as many of the highly finished watercolors he designed as formal presentations of his art.