Though one can view Honoré Daumier’s 19th century lithographs from a purely artistic or purely political standpoint, they were often a blend of both. An artist whose work was characterized by ...

Mix The New Masses and The New Yorker together, shake hard, Gallicize, move back a century to the time when to be Left in France was to be Republican, and you have something like La Caricature and its ...

The political circumstances are unstable, a nefarious clique is abusing its power, the economy is in crisis, and the social situation is growing ever more complex and confused.

Elisabeth Hugon (Sophie Daumier), actress: born Boulogne-sur-Mer, France 24 November 1936; married 1965 Guy Bedos (one son by an earlier relationship; marriage dissolved 1977); died Paris 31 December ...

ALL QUESTIONS concerning the ambiguous world of Daumier sculpture have been snatched away from a dusty drawer of art history and neatly placed in a revolutionary exhibition at the Fogg Museum. Rather ...

A never previously exhibited painting by Honoré Daumier goes on public display at the Royal Academy this weekend as part of the first British show in 50 years for the 19th-century French painter who, ...

For a long time, all Honoré Daumier (1808-79) meant to me were the prints in my father’s office. Like many of his fellow physicians, at least the cultivated ones with leftist pedigrees from the 1930s, ...

Two art publishers have lately released, as though for the purpose of convenient comparison, a volume of drawings by an artist better known for his paintings and another of paintings by a genius at ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. All his life Honoré Daumier kept at his bedside a copy of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Both writer and artist ...

Honoré Daumier was a French painter and printmaker best known for his caricatures critiquing and satirizing society and politics in 19th-century France. His two most famous characters were the ...