Locataires et Propriétaires - Complete Suite

Locataires et Propriétaires (Tenants and Owners) is the name of the Complete Suite of 11 lithographed plate (2nd series), published on   Le Charivari, French magazine,   from February to April 1854.  An amazing satiric print suite, with the sharp touch by Honoré Daumier !

Generally excellent condition of the prints, with a sharp contrasts of blacks, and usual oxidation signs on the edges of the first three plates, and some minor aging signs.

Provenance : Ph. Burty and F. Frapier collection.Stamps of the collections, from the G. Cognacq (Lugt 538d) and R. Gaston-Dreyfus (Lugt not described) on each plates.

Reference:  Delteil 2570 to 2580; Lugt 413 and 950a

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Honoré-Victorin Daumier (Marseille,1808 – Valmondois, 1879)

The French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, through his artworks, Honoré Daumier, offers us commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. Caricatures and cartoons of political figures, satirizing the behavior of his countrymen in newspapers and periodicals was his main activity, for which he became popular in his lifetime and is remebered and appreciate still today. He was a republican democrat whose targets were the bourgeoisie, the church, lawyers and the judiciary, politicians, and the monarchy. His talented and satiric pencil had a very high cost on his life: he was jailed for several months in 1832 after the publication of Gargantua because of a offensive depiction of King Louis-Philippe.  Charles Baudelaire noticed the Daumier's production and greatly admired his paintings, which were to have an influence on a younger generation of impressionist and postimpressionist painters. Later generations have come to recognize Daumier as one of the great French artists of the 19th century. Daumier was prolific artist that produced more than 100 sculptures, 500 paintings, 1000 drawings, 1000 wood engravings, and 4000 lithographs