Lot 4
  • 4

Honoré Daumier 1808-1879

Estimate
12,000 - 16,000 USD
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Description

  • Honoré Daumier
  • Buste de Dupin
  • with stamped MLG mark (to back of bust); cast 6/25 (to interior of cast) and inscribed 6/25 (to mounting flange of cast)
  • bronze with brown/dark-brown patina, on a stained wood plinth
  • height: 5 3/4 in. excluding plinth
  • 14.6 cm

Provenance

acquired by the present owner, July 1955

Literature

Maurice Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur 1808-1879, Geneva, 1952, no. 10, p. 185 (for an illustration of the terracotta)
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, a Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1969, no. 9, pp. 69-72, plate 9d (another cast illustrated)