Honore Daumier ART FOR SALE

1808 Paris, France - 1879 Valmondois, France. Known for: Lithography, painting, sculpture.

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Honore Daumier was born in Marseilles, France on February 26, 1808. He was the son of a Marseille glazier who wrote a little poetry on the side and who thought so much of his own talent that in 1816 he decided to move himself and his family to Paris. Over the next dozen years, the family lived in eight different apartments in Paris. There was never enough money, and the experience of hard times would mark Daumier for life. At the age of twelve, Honore became a messenger boy for a process server's office and then a clerk for a bookstore - jobs that opened up to him every corner of Paris. He sketched everything he saw and finally started studying art with an academician whose idea of instruction was to have his pupils copy plaster casts hour... Read full biography

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Couple Sleeping

Type:Painting

Year:19th C

Size:8.00" x 12.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed

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Honore Victorin Daumier (1808 - 1879) He was a superlative draftsman whose brush drew spare and strong, and whose preoccupation was people. No matter how ordinary their acts, Daumier gave drama & dignity to their lives. He was ruthless in his candor, but his candor was born of concern.

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