Word: daumiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Newsmen soon found further points of Grosz normality. Said he: "American beer is quite nice, light, absolutely good. but not to compare with German beer." He has hobbies: carpentry, collecting etchings (Rowlandson and Daumier). He smokes a pipe, rarely a cigar. He is married, has two boys, aged 7 and 3, both quite normal...
Among the most important works which have been offered for the exhibition are a water-color by Rivera, a painting by Matisse, a lithograph by Daumier, a print by Cruikshank, some etchings by Zorn and Heintzelman, a Dutch map of England printed in France in 1573, and a print of the first balloon flight in 1788. There will also be etchings by Rembrandt, Durer, and Van Leyden...
...found drawing too easy. He can imitate anyone, which is perhaps the reason why he has become the most obscure, the most scientific of modern artists. In 1900, when he first settled in Paris, he painted gypsies, vagabonds and melancholy children in the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec and Daumier. Always changing his style, he developed what art critics like to call his Blue Period, his Rose Period, his Neo-Classic Period, etc., etc. He became more and more abstract, more and more removed from humanity. Picasso was one of the founders of Cubism. He is the wellspring of that latest...