Happy Birthday Honoré Daumier!
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Portrait of Daumier by Nadar
• Here is an exhaustive resource that covers all of Daumier's lithographs: daumier.org
• A good basic overview: Olga's Gallery
I wrote a little appreciation last year at this time:
"Daumier!
I wish I could pinpoint the moment or the specific work of Honoré Daumier's that so firmly fixed him in my landscape of artistic influences. It was probably quite early because I associate him with Thomas Nast which, for me, dates back to high school. Back then, I really wanted to be an editorial cartoonist and I'm sure in my reading I saw examples of Daumier's work. The lithographs —there are hundreds— are fabulous caricatures of French politicians and ordinary people. His figure drawing and compositions are so useful and clear; the wit is broad and unsparing. Just writing this, I feel the urge to draw with a litho crayon!"
