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By combining Daumier's drawings with selected examples of his paintings, prints, and bronzes, this book traces the evolution of the artist's succinct and emphatically expressive style from its roots in the European tradition exemplified by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Fragonard to its modern manifestations in the works of Degas, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Beckmann. In the course of his long and productive career Daumier returned again and again to favorite themes, often after considerable lapses of time. Thus the works here are grouped by their subject matter into six sections: studies of individual figures and faces; narrative scenes inspired by history or literature; views of contemporary urban and domestic life; dramatic portrayals of lawyers in court; depictions of street performers; and episodes in the wanderings of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
In many ways Honore Daumier is the father of contemporary satire, and certainly his influence on the development of caricature was profound -- so much so that it is still possible to detect overtones of his work in today's satirical and anthropomorphic cartoons. For an artist who rose to prominence in the early part of the nineteenth century, his work still looks remarkably fresh at the beginning of the twenty-first. Daumier's fame and notoriety arose from the satirical portraits of political figures that he drew for French newspapers and magazines during the 1830s. But his paintings were equally powerful -- that of Don Quixote is a tragi-comic masterpiece -- and no less influential. This definitive book presents Daumier's drawings, paintings, sculptures and lithographs, along with an insightful text by the distinguished French art historian Pierre Cabanne, and a comprehensive collection of notes, details and important background research.