Details
Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
Apollon
signed with initials 'h.D.' (lower right)
gouache, watercolor, pen and India ink and colored chalks on toned paper
11 5/8 x 8¼ in. (29.5 x 21 cm.)
Executed circa 1853
Provenance
Hippolyte Lavoignat, Paris (by 1878).
Henri Rouart, Paris; sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 17-18 December 1912, lot 51.
E. Rouart (acquired at the above sale).
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris.
Léon Bollag, Zurich.
Suzanne Bollag, Zurich (by descent from the above, by 1967).
Jo-Anne Edinburg Pinkowitz, John Edinburg and Hope Edinburg; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1987, lot 110.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 2004, lot 148.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
A. Alexandre, Honoré Daumier, L'homme et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1888, p. 376 (illustrated, p. 155; titled Orphée).
A. Alexandre, La collection Henri Rouart, Paris, 1912, p. 126.
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, p. 95, no. 105G (2).
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1967, vol. II, p. 154, no. 453 (illustrated, pl. 156).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier, 1878, p. 73, no. 151.

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