Mar 02, 2017 - Sale 2437

Sale 2437 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
HONORÉ DAUMIER
Fumeur et buveur d'Absinthe.

Brush and gouache and wash on cream laid paper, circa 1860. 172x242 mm; 6 3/4x9 1/2 inches. Initialed in gouache, lower left recto, and inscribed "Huitième et dernière feuille" in pen and brown ink, verso.

A study for the artist's oil painting of the same subject, 1860, and also related to the lithograph, L'Absinthe, Le Preimére Verre, 1863 (Delteil 1158).

This drawing is currently registered with the work number DR11452, unconfirmed, in the archives of the Daumier Register, Ascona. An appraisal may be obtained by the Daumier Register.