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...Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population of Lilliputia, the puppets in The New Gulliver are about three inches high. Their tiny faces, designed by Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into three dimensions. Creased by tiny grins, twisted by picayune emotions of fear, alarm and love, they squeal and whisper, wiggle, grimace and frown in terrifying parody that would doubtless have delighted Jonathan Swift. Whether the author of Gulliver's Travels would be equally pleased...
...shows a palette of ten colors with white and red together and most prominent. During his last years he experimented with impressionistic back grounds. These as well as his choice of subjects were a major influence in the great French group which immediately followed him and included Courbet, Delacroix, Daumier, Manet. As a portrait painter, Goya was a quick, fashionable success. The nobility crowded to his studio, recklessly tossed him com missions which he invariably accepted. At 40 he was making big money and spending most of it. He bought himself a two-wheeled carriage, a thoroughbred horse...
...century were on, an interest in types of people took the place of the more imaginative work. A whole series of little books called "Physiologies" were issued in 1841 and '42. For these pamphlets the biting accuracy of Daumier's pencil was admirably suited. A whole case is filled with these vignettes, where Daumier is seen as the logical heritor of the Romantic illustrators. Exhibited with copies of the "Physiologies" are three pages of proofs submitted to Daumier by the engravers and initiated by him in pencil. These precious fragments have been lent by Mr. Russel Allen, to whose generosity...
...believed that this collection is one of the largest ever to be displayed in this part of the world. Among those artists represented are Seurat, Cezanne, Daumier, Van Gogh, and Aingres. Included in the list of those who have loaned drawings and prints for this exhibition are Mr. McIlhenny, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mr. W. G. Russell Allen...
...days when Paris was lit by gas instead of neon lights and Lithographer Honoré Daumier was discovering that Louis Philippe, "the Bourgeois Monarch," had a head like a pear, there lived a free & easy young woman of striking beauty named Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camélias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing...