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France's Honoré Daumier had a way of drawing out the nobility of commonfolk and the commonness of nobility from beneath wrinkles and warts. Dela croix used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...
...movements." Art, he felt, was to be shared as he had experienced it best, in "an intimate, attractive atmosphere that we associate with a beautiful home." Grandson of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon and independently wealthy, Phillips, after Yale ('08), turned to art. One of his initial loves was Daumier. He bought the French caricaturist's Three Lawyers in 1919, the first of what became one of the choicest Daumier collections...
...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
...Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes. Among newcomers to the museum are Daumier, Manet and Pissarro...
...anything more than timeliness. Social realism hardly makes the convincing picture that it did in the 1930s. But through Osborn's 27 chalk, collage and charcoal drawings in Manhattan's Downtown Gallery runs a brooding fury that links the cartoonist with the socially satirical art of Goya, Daumier and Ben Shahn. Side by side with looming figures symbolizing naked, illogical violence are Osborn's equally savage commentaries on the other nameless assassins responsible for the murders of Lieut. Colonel Lemuel Penn and the four children dynamited in an Alabama church...