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National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC): Honoré Daumier's career was one of the most unusual in the history of nineteenth-century art. Famous in his time as France's best-known caricaturist, he remained unrecognized in his actual stature--as one of the period's most profoundly original and wide-ranging realists. Even today, his essential quality may not be fully understood; the marvels of his pictorial inventions are half-hidden in the profusion of his enormous lithographic work, the sharp truths of his observation overshadowed by his comic genius and penchant for monumental stylization. Honoré Balzac's remark, "There is a lot of Michelangelo in that fellow," was perceptive, though probably made in a spirit of friendly condescension. Daumier was born in Marseille in 1808, the son of an eccentric glazier and frame maker with highflown poetic ambitions. In 1816 the elder Daumier took his family to Paris in pursuit of his doomed literary pro...

An exhibition produced jointly by the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais and the Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (A first stage of the event, in a reduced format was presented in Vienna, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, from October 28, 2014 to February 15, 2015.) Born in Seville in 1599, Velázquez is one of the most important figures in the history of art, all styles and periods together. The leader of the Spanish school, official artist to King Philip IV at a time when Spain dominated the world, he was a contemporary of van Dyck, Bernini and Zubaran, although his art gave him a timelessness that is rivalled only by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio and Rembrandt.Trained at an early age by Francisco Pacheco, an influential painter and scholar in the Andalusian capital, he soon won recognition for his art. Encouraged by his master, by then also his father-in-law, he decided to try his luck at cou...

Sotheby's 2014 Maurice de Vlaminck AU COIN DE LA RUE Lot. Vendu 36,250 GBP Maurice de Vlaminck PAYSAGE LOT SOLD. 87,500 USD Maurice de Vlaminck RUE DE VILLAGE SOUS LA NEIGE LOT SOLD. 77,500 US Maurice de Vlaminck LA SEINE À CHATOU LOT SOLD. 575,000 USD Maurice de Vlaminck ROUTE DE L'ÉGLISE LOT SOLD. 53,125 USD  Maurice de Vlaminck PAYSAGE DE NEIGE LOT SOLD. 161,000 USD Maurice de Vlaminck LA SORTIE DU BOIS LOT SOLD. 81,250 USD  Maurice de Vlaminck VILLAGE ENNEIGÉ LOT SOLD. 118,750 USD more Christie's 1999   Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) Bouquet devant la fentre Pr.$88,300   Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) Ferme Pr.$34,500   Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) Paysage de rivire Pr.$101,500   Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) Magasins de vi...