Daumier
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
It will feature works by his contemporaries Paul Gauguin and Claude Monet, by earlier French artists such as Eugène Delacroix and Honoré Daumier and by the Japanese woodblock artists Hokusai and Hiroshige.
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021
They’re each as enticingly grotesque as a caricature by Goya or Daumier, thanks in part to their distinctively disheveled coifs.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018
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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