THE ARTIST H. DAUMIER Interpreter of History.
Pp. vi+80(last blank)+20 plates, notes; demy folio; maroon boards, gilt lettered black label on spine, the boards faded and lightly flecked, edges and corners worn; fore-edges uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, hinge tender at one point, the leaves lightly browned; The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1940. One of 250 copies. *Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870. A prolific artist, he produced more than 100 sculptures, 500 paintings, 1,000 drawings, 1,000 wood engravings, and 4,000 lithographs. Item #182427
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