From Daumier to Olitski: Select Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections

From Daumier to Olitski: Select Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections

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Property from the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections

Honoré Daumier

L'Avocat pathétique

Lot Closed

September 23, 06:01 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections

Honoré Daumier

1810 - 1879

L'Avocat pathétique


Signed with the initials h.D (lower right)

Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and ink and pencil on paper

8¾ by 6⅛ in. (22.2 by 15.6 cm)

Framed: 16⅝ by 14 in. (42.3 by 35.5 cm)

Executed circa 1850-55.

Henry Marcel, Paris
Jos Hessel, Paris
Étienne Bignou, Paris
Private Collection, The Netherlands (acquired by 1924)
Private Collection, Switzerland (and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 22, 2004, lot 412)
Jan Krugier & Mary-Anne Poniatowsky, Geneva (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 2014, lot 388)
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired at the above sale)
The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections (gifted by the above in 2016)
Martine Marotte & Charles Martine, Dessins de mâitres français, Honoré Daumier, vol. IV, Paris, 1924, no. 30, illustrated n.p.
Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, n.n., illustrated p. 24
Karl Eric Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, vol. II, London, 1967, no. 633, illustrated pl. 238