Daumier
Americannoun
noun
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In 1848, artist artist Honoré Daumier completed a famous painting of a Frenchman raising his fist as a commemoration of the uprisings that had erupted that year to oust France’s last serving monarch, King Louis-Philippe.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2023
When people say, “Who are your influences,” I tell them it’s Daumier and Posada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Picasso may have seen the Daumier in an April 1901 publication, curator Brummel argues.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2022
“The Doctor Is In: Medicine in French Prints,” an exhibition that explores how European artists documented and interpreted health issues and medical practices of their time, with works by Honoré Daumier, Hermann-Paul and Charles Maurin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
It seemed urgent to me not only to reiterate my earlier lies—about my kinship with Daumier, about my deceased wife, about my small estate in the South of France—but to elaborate on them.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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