Description
Honoré DAUMIER (1808 - 1879) attributed to Head of a man with a top hat Proof in bronze with brown patina, bearing the founder's stamp Claude Valsuani lost wax on the back and on the right side numbered 14 / 30 17 x 11.5 x 10.5 cm Height: 23,2 cm with the wooden base Posthumous edition Note: Originally purchased by the painter Sam Szafran in 1963, the clay head was sold to Joseph Hermann Hirshhorn who authorized Pierre Matisse to make a bronze edition of 30 copies by Valsuani in 1968. See pp. 257,58, Va and Vb similar prints reproduced in the catalog J.Wasserman Daumier sculptures étude critique et comparative Harvard.1969. Two stylistically similar proofs are reproduced in the catalog raisonné of Maurice Gobin cat. 38 and 39 pp. 241 and 248.
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Honoré DAUMIER (1808 - 1879) attributed to Head of a man with a top hat Proof in bronze with brown patina, bearing the founder's stamp Claude Valsuani lost wax on the back and on the right side numbered 14 / 30 17 x 11.5 x 10.5 cm Height: 23,2 cm with the wooden base Posthumous edition Note: Originally purchased by the painter Sam Szafran in 1963, the clay head was sold to Joseph Hermann Hirshhorn who authorized Pierre Matisse to make a bronze edition of 30 copies by Valsuani in 1968. See pp. 257,58, Va and Vb similar prints reproduced in the catalog J.Wasserman Daumier sculptures étude critique et comparative Harvard.1969. Two stylistically similar proofs are reproduced in the catalog raisonné of Maurice Gobin cat. 38 and 39 pp. 241 and 248.
