Daumier drawings by Colta Ives, Margret Stuffmann, and Martin Sonnabend with contributions by Klaus Herding and Judith Wechsler

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ives, Colta Feller

Contributor:

Stuffmann, Margret

Sonnabend, Martin

Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879--Exhibitions.

Daumier, Honoré.

Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) illustrations (some color)

Distribution:

Distributed by Harry N. Abrams [1992]

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art : [1992]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"Honore Daumier (1808-1879) is best known as the nimble caricaturist of French politics and the habits of the bourgeoisie. The nearly 4,000 lithographs he created for the Parisian press have long been appreciated as magic windows on the perils and follies of everyday life and continue to be widely admired. However, it is in his rarer and less famous drawings and watercolors, the private work he made for himself and a very limited audience, that Daumier most clearly emerges as an artist of exceptional genius. Indeed, it was on the strength of his skill as a draughtsman that Baudelaire declared Daumier the equal of Ingres and Delacroix." "This volume accompanies an exhibition at the Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, offering the most extensive display of Daumier's drawings since the Paris retrospectives of 1901 and 1934. Featuring about 150 works from twenty of the world's foremost museums and from private collections, it includes casual sketches produced by the artist to vent his restless imagination as well as many of the highly finished watercolors he designed as formal presentations of his art. By combining Daumier's drawings with selected examples of his paintings, prints, and bronzes, this book traces the evolution of the artist's succinct and emphatically expressive style from its roots in the European tradition exemplified by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Fragonard to its modern manifestations in the works of Degas, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Beckmann." "In the course of his long and productive career Daumier returned again and again to favorite themes, often after considerable lapses of time. Thus the works here are grouped by their subject matter into six sections: studies of individual figures and faces; narrative scenes inspired by history or literature; views of contemporary urban and domestic life; dramatic portrayals of lawyers in court; depictions of street performers; and episodes in the wanderings of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza." "Five essays, in which the exhibition's curators are joined by two other scholars of nineteenth-century art history, investigate particular aspects of Daumier's work as a draughtsman: the character of his fluid, energetic style; the complex iconography and structure of his drawings; the essentially sculptural nature of his art; his effective mastery of pose and gesture; and his personal view of the artist's role in society."--Jacket

Contents:

Drawing at liberty : Daumier's style / Colta Ives

Drawing from the mind : reflections on the iconography of Daumier's drawings / Margret Stuffmann

Sculptural aspects of Daumier's drawings / Martin Sonnabend

Movement and time in the drawings of Daumier : "still and still moving" / Judith Wechsler

The artist and the connoisseur in Daumier's work / Klaus Herding

The expressive face, the impressive figure / Colta Ives

History and illustration / Margret Stuffman and Martin Sonnabend

Urbanity and domesticity / Colta Ives

Experiments in light / Margret Stuffman

Connoisseurs / Martin Sonnabend

Lawyers and the courts / Colta Ives

Sideshows and saltimbanques / Margret Stuffmann

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza / Martin Sonnabend

Chronology / Jenny Squires Wilker

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Ives, Colta Feller. Daumier drawings

OCLC:

622128688