Word: gavarni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have something like La Caricature and its daily successor Le Charivari, the periodicals by which Honore Daumier earned 30 years' living, six months in jail, and undying fame as an artist. Beginning in the second decade after the Napoleonic Wars, hardworking lithographers including Traviès, Gavarni and Grandville filled these sheets with caricatures of Bonapartist reactionaries and canting bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless in 1879 in a house given to him by Corot. No cartoonist of Daumier's power, few painters so well endowed or so frustrated, have lived since. Because...
...prints placed above the case. The magnificent "Rue Transonian" is flanked by the "Souvenir de Saint-Pelagic," the prison where Daumier was confined for his political caricatures. This impression, one of seven known proofs, is also tent by Mr. Allen. Finally, an interesting comparison of Daumier and Gavarni is afforded by the juxtaposition of similar compositions. In this way the visitor is shown in dramatic fashion the similarities and the characteristics of the two leading journalistic artists; the general point of view of the period and the specific vision of the artist...
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