Honoré Daumier - Lot 95

Lot n° 95
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Honoré Daumier - Lot 95
Honoré Daumier Le Ventre législatif, aspects of the ministerial benches of the Improvised House of 1834, plate 18 of the Monthly Association, 1834, lithograph, 32 x 45 cm, margins 35 x 54 cm (Delteil 131), very fine and rare applied china print, unfolded, the support slightly yellowed, restored lacks in the upper left and lower right corners and in the right margin, finely lined. "Daumier's fictitious meeting of thirty-five deputies of the "just middle" is shown here, many of whom had already had their individual portrait-charge made, either in lithography or sculpture. A unanimously celebrated piece, Le Ventre législatif (The Legislative Belly) marks the spectacular culmination of the series of political portraits of the July Monarchy and is one of Daumier's masterpieces in lithography, with its mastery of gradations from black to white. "(Daumier, l'écriture du lithographe, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2008, No. 25, p. 65) Ad for sale: small tear in the china on the right
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