HONORÉ DAUMIER
French, 1808 – 1879
Tête d'Homme
Signed with initials indistinctly l.l. h.D.
Oil on panel
8½ by 6¼ inches (21.6 by 15.6 cm)
Framed: 14½ x 12½ inches (37 x 30.8 cm)
Painted circa 1855-58.
This work, described by K.E. Maison as "remarkably well-preserved", was in a number of important collections
including those of Camentron, Kann, Kélékian, Fuchs and Chrysler.
Provenance
Gaston Alexandre Camentron, France, by 1901
Alphonse Kann, France
Dikran Khan Kélékian, Paris and New York, by 1920 (sale, American Art Association, New York, January 30,
1922, lot 95, illustrated, sold for $900)
Joseph Brummer, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Eduard Fuchs, Paris
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Provincetown, Massachusetts (sale, Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1959, lot 18, illustrated,
sold for £5,500)
P. D. Christopoulos, London (acquired at the above sale)
Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 12, 1963, lot 93, illustrated, sold for £2,800
P. Pochin (acquired at the above sale)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Private Collection, New York
Thence by descent to the previous owner
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Daumier, 1901, no. 465
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Origins of Modern Art, 1941, no. 44
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collection of Walter
P. Chrysler, Jr., 1941, no. 40, illustrated
London, Tate Gallery, Daumier: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 44
Literature
Arsène Alexandre, La Collection Kélékian, Paris, 1920, no. 25
Eric Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, no. 449, pl. 129, illustrated
Eduard Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, p. 46, no. 14a, pl. 14a, illustrated
Alfred M. Frankfurter, "341 Documents of Modern Art: The Chrysler Collection," Art News, January 17, 1941,
p. 10, illustrated
K.E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London,
1968, vol. I, p. 103, no. I-97, pl. 17, illustrated
Luigi Barzini and Gabriele Mandel, L'opera pittorica completa di Daumier, Milan, 1971, p. 98, no. 123,
illustrated
Benezit, Dictionary of Artists, Paris, 2006, vol. 4, p. 455