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HONORÉ DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Le Drame
signed with initials 'h.D.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
8 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (21 x 34.2 cm.)
Provenance
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (by 1916 and until at least 1927).
E.J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam.
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (by 1947).
Oliver B. James, Phoenix (acquired from the above, June 1952); Estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 19 October 1955, lot 45.
Acquired by the family of the present owners, circa 1955.
Literature
Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, 1916 (illustrated, pl. 7).
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier Munich, 1923, no. 104A (illustrated, pl. 56).
"A Typical Example of a Great Frenchman's Art," The Art News, vol. XXII, no. 12, 29 December 1923, p. 4 (illustrated; titled Theatre).
M.T. Sadleir, Daumier: The Man and The Artist, London, 1924 (illustrated, pl. 11).
E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, New York, 1927, p. 51, no. 134a (illustrated, pl. 134; with incorrect dimensions).
J. Adhémar, Honoré Daumier Paris, 1954, p. 123.
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, New York, 1968, vol. I, p. 205, no. II-45 (illustrated, pl. 197; with incorrect dimensions and cataloguing).
G. Mandel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Daumier, Paris, 1972, p. 104, no. 188 (illustrated; with incorrect cataloguing).
Exhibited
Kunstgebäude Stuttgart, Grosse Kunstausstellung, May-October 1913, p. 61, no. 312.
Post lot text
This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement of K.E. Maison's Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Daumier, currently being prepared by the Comité Honoré Daumier