Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)

Deux chanteurs

Details

Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
Deux chanteurs
signed 'h. Daumier' (lower right), dated and dedicated 'À Miss Anna Granger Valmondois 1 Août 1868' (lower centre)
pen and ink with wash on paper
7 x 5in. (18.1 x 12.4cm.)
Executed on 1 August 1868

Provenance

Given by the artist to Miss Anna Granger.

Literature

Exh. cat. Daumier, Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Washington, The Phillips Collection, June 1999-May 2000, fig. 9, p. 559 (illustrated).

Sale room notice

Please note that the verso of the present lot bears the artist's dedication to Miss Anna Granger: 'Valmondois 2 août 1868: À Miss anna Granger. Le Rossignol d'Amérique par son Maître et Ami. 1. Toi! bel oiseau du bois! Fuis tes retraits sauvages, et sur nos doux visages fais entendre ta voix... . Elle est fraiche et vibrante, exhale en sons yoyeux La chanson que l'on chante sous l'azur de tes oeiux!...'

Lot Essay

This drawing will be reproduced in the supplement to the catalogue raisonné of Daumier, now in preparation by the Comité Honoré Daumier.

Daumier moved to Valmondois, near Paris in 1865, in the middle of a decade 'in the artist's life when his genius as a draughtsman was at its zenith' (K. E. Maison, Daumier Drawings, New York, 1960, p. 11). The present work, which remained un-recorded and unknown since its execution on 1 August 1868 until last year, is described in the catalogue of the exhibition Daumier as 'son seul dessin signé, localisé, daté' (op. cit., p. 559).

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