Lot 215
  • 215

Honoré Daumier

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Honoré Daumier
  • Avocat de profil (I) & Étude de têtes (II): A Pair of Drawings
  • I: Signed with the initials h.D. (lower right)
  • Pen and ink, brush and ink, black crayon, pencil and ink wash on paper laid down on card
  • I: 6 7/8 by 4 5/8 in.; 17.5 by 11.8 cm
  • II: 1 7/8 by 4 in.; 4.8 by 10.2 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, United States (acquired circa the 1920s)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879, 1979, n.n.

Condition

Each work is executed on cream wove paper laid down on card. Each card is t-hinged to a mount at two places along the top edge of its verso. The sheets are a little time-darkened and mat-stained, with example II being most affected. There are some extremely minor surface stains toward the outer perimeters and a extremely minor scuff to the top left corner of example II, but the works are in overall good condition.
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