Peter Rees
Director, Head of Sales
Lot 14*
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808-1879)
Le Malade Imaginaire sight 39.2 x 29.7cm (15 7/16 x 11 11/16in), sheet 47.4 x 36cm (18 11/16 x 14 3/16in).
21 September 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Le Malade Imaginaire
bears indistinct inscription (lower edge beneath the mount)
charcoal and ink wash
sight 39.2 x 29.7cm (15 7/16 x 11 11/16in), sheet 47.4 x 36cm (18 11/16 x 14 3/16in).
bears indistinct inscription (lower edge beneath the mount)
charcoal and ink wash
sight 39.2 x 29.7cm (15 7/16 x 11 11/16in), sheet 47.4 x 36cm (18 11/16 x 14 3/16in).
Footnotes
To be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by the Comité Honoré Daumier. The work will also be included in K.E. Maison's Supplément au Catalogue Raisonné.
Provenance
Seligmann, E.M.M. Warburg & Zilborg.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 23 March 1962, lot 132.
Anon. sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 14 March 1967, lot. 27.
Anon. sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 4 December 1970.
Anon. sale, Mes Laurin Guilloux Buffetaud Tailleur, Paris, 17 March 1976, lot 110.
Private collection, France.
Anon. sale, Artcurial, Paris, 26 March 2014, lot 90.
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
E. Fuchs, Der Maler Daumier, Munich, 1930, no. 338b. illustrated.
K.E. Maison, Catalogue Raisonné Honoré Daumier, London, 1968, t. II, pp. 271‐272, no. IV, illustrated in attributions, pl. 321, no. IV (Etude pour la composition du Malade imaginaire).