A man holding a theatre programme looking back at an eavesdropper in a theatre stall

細節

Honoré Daumier (Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois)
A man holding a theatre programme looking back at an eavesdropper in a theatre stall
signed 'hD.'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey and blue wash
5½ x 7½ in. (141 x 192 mm.)

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拍品專文

The attribution of the present drawing was confirmed by the Comité Honoré Daumier in a letter dated 2nd May 2005.
The drawing is related to a slightly larger bodycolour of a similar subject called Pendant l'entr'acte à la Comédie Française (K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Paris, 1968, II, no. 501). The composition, slightly longer on the left, varies only in details such as the man holding the programme is reading it rather than turning towards the eavesdropper, who is instead observed by the man on his left.
Another drawing of a related subject is the Oskar Reinhart Collection at Winterthur (K.E. Maison, op. cit., no. 500).