Lot 8
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Honoré Daumier 1808-1879

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Honoré Daumier
  • Le Ratapoil
  • inscribed 4/12 (on top of base), with Valsuani foundry stamp (to side of back of base)
  • bronze with dark brown-black patina, on a tapered stained wood plinth with revolving top
  • Height: 17 1/4 in., excluding plinth
  • 44 cm.

Literature

Maurice Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur 1808-1879, Geneva, 1952, no. 61, pp. 25, 60, 76, pp. 295, 297 (for an illustration of plaster versions), pp. 298-299 (for illustration of bronze versions)
Marcel Lecompte, Daumier Sculpteur, Les Figurines et autres Sculptures, Paris, 1979, no. 67 (another cast illustrated)
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, a Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1969, no. 37, pp. 161-169, plate 37e (another cast illustrated)