Word: daumiers
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...this kind of hullabaloo could not obscure the most important fact: quiet, stocky William Gropper, a punch-packing cartoonist, is a still better painter. He paints as he draws, quickly and simply, without benefit of model, in reds, blues, yellows, whites. His masters are Breughel, Goya and Daumier. He does not disgrace them. Typically class-conscious canvases at the A. C. A. show: The Shoemaker, who is mending other men's shoes while barefoot himself; Brenda in a Tantrum, which shows 1939's Glamor Girl No. 1 streaming indignantly through the air; Art Patrons...
...effects." Last week this apparently inconsiderable be quest turned out to be a windfall. In his studio's litter was a small oil painting on a wooden panel, signed H. D., and titled (by Hasselbusch) Conjugal Parisiene (sic). Joyful experts identified it as one of famed Lithographer Honore Daumier's rare paintings. The Sketch Club banked it in a safe-deposit vault, planned to sell "to the right person...
Painter Hasselbusch picked up his tiny oil (8 by 10 inches) in Paris shortly after Cartoonist Daumier died there in 1879, a blind pensioner of the Third Republic. Original Daumiers nowadays sell for five figures. Museums, if not collectors, must think twice before buying so harsh a domestic satire as Conjugal Parisiene, never before reproduced. No Daumier was jolly old Portraitist Hasselbusch. Typical of his work is Turbaned Turk, which the Sketch Club has hung in his memory. It will never need a safe-deposit vault...
...sketches, which continue the story in this rather laughable fashion, exhibit strong powers of social satire and characterization. Though Ober-laender lacks much that can be found in Daumier, this small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles...
...other artist in this particular field. It is not my intention to establish these men as great artists; they are, however, worth special notice because they are craftsmen who can be placed in a category well above that of the simple illustrator. It is well to remember, too, that Daumier, one of the most powerful figures of nineteenth century art, was a newspaper cartoonist...