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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale Including Property from the John C. Whitehead Collection | 23 | $****** - ****** | La Politique |
Works on Paper
44.1 x 35.4 cm (17.36 x 13.94 in)
brush and pen and black ink, grey wash and charcoal on paper
signed 'h. Daumier' (lower left)
Galerie Camentron, Paris. Paul Aubry, Paris;
sale, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 10 May 1897, lot 41. Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale). Galerie Moline, Paris (acquired from the above, 6 October 1911). Otto Gerstenberg, Berlin (acquired from the above, by 1923). Margarethe Scharf, Berlin (1935). Galerie Matthiesen (Berlin). Matthiesen Ltd., London (after 1938). Albert C. Nussbaumer, Lugano ( circa 1942 and until at least 1961).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 28 June 1999, lot 2. Acquired at the above sale by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead
Paris, Palais de L'École des Beaux-Arts, Daumier , May 1901, p. 38, no. 195. Paris, Galerie L. & P. Rosenberg Fils, Exposition de dessins, aquarelles et lithographies de H. Daumier , April-May 1907, no. 2. London, The National Gallery, French Painting of the 19th Century , February-March 1943, no. 26. London, Tate Gallery, Daumier: Paintings and Drawings , June-July 1961, p. 50, no. 127 (illustrated, pl. 25a). Ingelheim am Rhein, Villa Schneider, Honoré Daumier: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographes, Sculptures , April-May 1971, no. 31 (illustrated; illustrated again, pl. 8). New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, From Daumier to Matisse: Selections from the John C. Whitehead Collection , May 2002, pp. 34 and 73, no. 2 (illustrated in color, pp. 35 and 73). New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, From Daumier to Matisse: French Master Drawing from the John C. Whitehead Collection , April-May 2010, p. 18, no. 2 (illustrated in color, p. 19)
E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier , Munich, 1908, p. 62 (illustrated). Kunst und Künstler , Berlin, 1911, p. 185. R. Escholier, Daumier , Paris, 1923, p. 199 (illustrated, p. 169). E. Klossowski, Honoré Daumier , Munich, 1923, p. 110, no. 262 (illustrated, pl. 104). C. Baudelaire, "Les Dessins de Daumier" in Ars Graphica , Paris, 1924 (illustrated, pl. 34; titled Les politiciens ). M. Sadleir, Daumier: The Man and the Artist , London, 1924 (illustrated, pl. 52 ). E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier , Munich, 1930 (illustrated, pl. 217a). J. Lassaigne, Daumier , Paris, 1947, p. 166 (illustrated, pl. 51). J. Cassou, Daumier , Lausanne, 1949 (illustrated, pl. 20; with incorrect provenance). C. Schweicher, Daumier , Paris, 1953 (illustrated, pl. 11). K.E. Maison, The Burlington Magazine , London, May 1956, p. 165, fig. 51 (illustrated). O.W. Larkin, Daumier: Man of His Time , New York, 1966, p. 245, no. 68 (illustrated, p. 144; titled Politics in a Beer Garden ). K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings , London, 1967, vol. II, p. 110, no. 325 (illustrated, pl. 93). P. Fitzgerald, "Daumier at Ingelheim-am-Rhein" in The Burlington Magazine , London, July 1971, vol. 113, no. 820, pp. 430-431. A. Pophanken and F. Billeter, eds., Die moderne und ihre Sammler Französische Kunst in Deutschem privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik , Berlin, 2001, p. 178. H. Strzoda, J. Dahlmanns and J. Scharf, Die historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg , Ostfildern, Germany, 2012, vol. II, p. 40, no. 178 (illustrated)
