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Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
Ratapoil
Details
Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
Ratapoil
inscribed with foundry mark and numbered 'Alexis RUDIER Fondeur.PARIS 8/20' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1850-1851; this bronze version cast circa 1925-1952
Ratapoil
inscribed with foundry mark and numbered 'Alexis RUDIER Fondeur.PARIS 8/20' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1850-1851; this bronze version cast circa 1925-1952
Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the family of the late owner, May 1962.
Acquired from the above by the family of the late owner, May 1962.
Literature
A. Alexandre, Honoré Daumier, L'homme et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1888 (plaster version illustrated, p. 297).
M. Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur, Avec un catalogue raisonné et illustré de l'oeuvre sculpté, Geneva, 1952, p. 294, no. 61 (plaster version illustrated, pp. 295 and 297; another cast illustrated, pp. 298-299).
J. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, A Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, p. 163, no. 37c (plaster versions and other casts illustrated pp. 162-163 and 166).
R. Passeron, Daumier, Témoin de son temps, Fribourg, 1979, p. 169, no. 100 (another cast illustrated).
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day, Oxford, 1992, vol. II, p. 34, no. 274 (another cast illustrated, p. 35).
M. Gobin, Daumier Sculpteur, Avec un catalogue raisonné et illustré de l'oeuvre sculpté, Geneva, 1952, p. 294, no. 61 (plaster version illustrated, pp. 295 and 297; another cast illustrated, pp. 298-299).
J. Wasserman, Daumier Sculpture, A Critical and Comparative Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, p. 163, no. 37c (plaster versions and other casts illustrated pp. 162-163 and 166).
R. Passeron, Daumier, Témoin de son temps, Fribourg, 1979, p. 169, no. 100 (another cast illustrated).
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day, Oxford, 1992, vol. II, p. 34, no. 274 (another cast illustrated, p. 35).
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