Daumier

[doh-myey]

noun

1. Honoré 1808–79, French painter, cartoonist, and lithographer.

Daumier

/ domje /

noun

1. Honoré (ɔnɔre). 1808–79, French painter and lithographer, noted particularly for his political and social caricatures

Example Sentences

Writing in The Times, the critic Roberta Smith said, “Her work shares in the spirit, if not the appearance, of Daumier’s sculptures and the small wood figures of Feininger.”

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When people say, “Who are your influences,” I tell them it’s Daumier and Posada.

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Unmoved by Abstract Expressionism, he followed in the artistic tradition of realists like Francisco Goya and Honoré Daumier.

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More intriguing are the remains of what may have been a still life and tabletop, and possibly a reference to Honore Daumier’s drawing “The Soup,” from the 1860s.

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He went to Arles, seeking the landscape of the Japanese prints he loved so much, and found echoes of Honoré Daumier’s cafe scenes, too.

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