1060334

Honore Daumier, Framed Lithograph, Ami du #1060334

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Honore Daumier, Framed Lithograph, Ami du #1060334
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Artist: Honore Daumier (after)

Title: Ami du Personne

Year: circa 1970

Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate

Size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches (image)

Frame: 16 x 13 inches





Honore Daumier was born in Marseilles, France on February 26, 1808. He was the son of a Marseille glazier who wrote a little poetry on the side and who thought so much of his own talent that in 1816 he decided to move himself and his family to Paris. Over the next dozen years, the family lived in eight different apartments in Paris. There was never enough money, and the experience of hard times would mark Daumier for life.



At the age of twelve, Honore became a messenger boy for a process server's office and then a clerk for a bookstore - jobs that opened up to him every corner of Paris. He sketched everything he saw and finally started studying art with an academician whose idea of instruction was to have his pupils copy plaster casts hour after hour. "This is not life," said Daumier, and he struck out on his own.



A year later. the boy enrolled in the Academy Suisse, an informal school where students could draw from the model in the mornings and still hold down jobs. Though Daumier was never a flamboyant bohemian, he was soon part of a group of young artists from the school, some of whom became lifelong friends. If the teenager didn't have the money for oils or canvas (presumably why so little of his student work survives), in studios and cafes he drew ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1970</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:18</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:15</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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