HONORÉ DAUMIER, (1808-1879)

Tête d'homme

Tête d'homme
pen, wash, ink and pencil on buff paper
7 x 5.4cm (2 3/4 x 2 1/8in).

Provenance
Otto Gerstenberg Collection, Berlin.
Margarethe Scharf Collection, Germany.
Fritz & Peter Nathan Collection, Zurich.
Anthony van Hoboken Collection, Vienna.
Private collection; her sale, Sotheby & Co., 3 December 1958, lot 111.
Piccadilly Gallery, London.
Fritz Gross Collection, London, no. 564A (acquired from the above in May 1961).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist and Modern, The art and collection of Fritz Gross, 14 August – 21 October 1990, no. 11.

Literature
K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Vol. II, The Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1968, no. 18a (illustrated pl. 3).