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The Painter, 1865, by Honoré Daumier This intense, disturbing study of a human head with eyes that are gulfs of dark introspection looks like it could be a modern painting by Dubuffet or Auerbach. But it was by Honoré Daumier, an artist is still widely misunderstood as merely a gifted newspaper caricaturist who occasionally turned out a painting. It’s true Daumier was a brilliant satirist, the French Gillray, whose lethal graphic art made real political impact (he famously portrayed King Louis Philippe as a pear, a grotesquerie that stuck). But as his contemporary the poet and critic Charles Baudelaire recognised, he was also a pure artist poised powerfully between romanticism and realism, tragedy and comedy. We see that profound side here.

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