Word: daumier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both his life and his art he was the epitome of contentment. In failure he did not sulk; in success he was happy to use his wealth to help out his friends, including the caricaturist Daumier, who -impoverished and nearly blind-was about to be evicted from his cottage. Corot bought another cottage for Daumier and sent along a tongue-in-cheek explanation: "It is not for you I do this; it is merely to annoy your landlord...
...present prestige, he has enjoyed such a success among the collections of America that it is there and not in Europe that one must study his work." The Louvre has 58 Delacroix; but there are 66 in the U.S., while France's neighbor Spain does not have one. Daumier is far better represented in Washington or Boston or Baltimore than in his home town of Marseille...
...that in this kind of exhibition England would carry the day. Only one American, Swiss-born Edward Troye, who died in 1874, was considered eligible to hang with the masters. Though France is represented by some of its most illustrious names, the fact remains that for such artists as Daumier, Degas and Manet, art always came in first, and horses only showed. But in England, from Charles II to Elizabeth II, the sovereign has been a patron of the turf (two of the exhibition's paintings came from the Royal Collection), and the commissioning of portraits was once almost...
Since long before Isaiah prophesied that nations would beat their swords into plowshares, men of good will have dreamed the noble dream of disarmament and everlasting peace. Great thinkers and artists-Kant and Rousseau, Goya and Daumier-have preached it in their works. During the interval between the two World Wars, it even seemed at times that the ancient dream was at last approaching fulfillment...
...Chained Liberty strainingly strode. Scattered about the palatial apartments were figures by Archipenko, Zadkine, Zorach, José de Creeft, Koren Der Harootian, Nathaniel Kaz, Viani, and Reg Butler. The study contained a miniature judges' bench in rosewood, serving as a pedestal for eleven Judges and Advocates by Daumier. In the garden Antoine Bourdelle's huge, agonized bronze Warrior hacked and thrust...