This Year Venuses Again (Daumier).jpg 241 × 281 38 KB. The following 69 files are in this category, out of 69 total. This exhibition was organized by Curatorial Assistant Holly E. Media in category 'Lithographs by Honor Daumier'. This exhibition included 33 images culled from the museum’s extensive collection of works on paper. The images that were on view, an excellent sampling of Daumier’s satirical eye, are unique historical documents that reflect the amusements, costume, demeanor, and politics of fin-de-siècle Parisian life. Images of corrupt politicians, judges, swindlers, dubious rascals, and human folly in general, echo Daumier’s humanist viewpoint and his strong social conscience. Although Daumier was first and foremost a painter and sculptor, the bulk of his lifetime income came from his highly popular caricatures published in weekly French journals such as La Caricature and La Charivari. At a time when France was continually enmeshed in political turmoil, Daumier thrived in an underground society of “bohemian” artists who questioned political and social mores in nineteenth-century Paris. Daumier was both a prolific artist and devoted humanist. In conjunction with The Drawings of Rube Goldberg, the Albright-Knox exhibited a selection of lithographs by French artist Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879).
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