Last week the serious side of Honore Daumier was on view at Lon don’s Tate Gallery in 231 paintings and drawings, the biggest Daumier show in 60 years. Daumier’s reputation as a painter has ...

Can a noose be art? One artist is rethinking a volatile symbol. Daumier made dozens of clay caricature busts of some of the worst ghouls and grifters of his age, using these painted, unfired ...

An artist whose work was characterized by whimsical and often surrealist imagery, Daumier (1808–1879) frequently made political statements with his art, but always sought to entertain. Brandeis is ...

For its 125th birthday, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt is to receive one of the biggest collections of works by Honoré Daumier outside France as a gift from the collector Hans-Jürgen Hellwig.

1867-1868) by Honore Daumier Daumier wasn’t one for the luscious facture of many French artists. The unfinished look of almost all his paintings suggest they were abandoned before completion ...

Honore Daumier (1808-1879 ... refused the Legion of Honour and served as fine art delegate to the 1871 Paris Commune. Son of a glassmaker who wrote plays, at the age of 12 Daumier was sent to work as ...

There is so much physical awkwardness in Daumier's figures, so many hulking, slumped, wrenched-awry forms. What is more, the paintings are almost never highly finished. They often look slightly ...

The caricature was barred from publication. Its lithographic stone was destroyed and Daumier was handed a six-month prison sentence. The Yale University Art Gallery recently acquired a print of ...