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Honor茅 Daumier was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1808. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud have featured Honor茅 Daumier's work in the past.Honor茅 Daumier's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 2,629,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,629,000 USD for LES AVOCATS聽鈥 LE PARQUET DES AVOCATS, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2013. In the past 12 months, his works on paper have averaged 9,025 USD, while his paintings have sold for an average of 8,785 USD.Honor茅 Daumier has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Artillery Magazine in September 2025. The artist died in 1879.
Artist's alternative names: Daumier, Honor茅 Victorin Daumier鈥
The Scharf Collection, one of the most significant private art collections in Germany, is being showcased in a large-scale exhibition for the very first time.
Once, when I was 12 or 13, I was looking at Fernand L茅ger鈥檚 1925 painting Composition in the European wing of LACMA鈥檚 since-demolished Ahmanson Building when I noticed a small termite crawling across the surface.
Known as the 鈥淢ichelangelo of caricature,鈥 Honor茅 Daumier famously satirized France鈥檚 19th century bourgeoisie and government officials in a variety of mediums, including painting, prints and sculpture.
Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri- Columbia
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..Daumier鈥檚 gleeful caricatures frequently portrayed the king as a pear, and often as corrupt, and by 1835, the king had reinstituted censorship of images, so Daumier could no longer caricature the king...
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..When Daumier wanted to criticize conservative politics, he frequently portrayed the editor of a conservative newspaper鈥攏ot a government official, but a well-known apologist for conservative causes...
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..Daumier produced over four thousand lithographs, many of which were satires depicting the lighter aspects of French politics, society, and culture...
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