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“Daumier's colour is the soot of nineteenth-century Paris — ochre and grime with one bilious green that turns satire into a verdict.”
Honoré Daumier
Painter · Realism · 1808–1879
French caricaturist and painter whose lawyers and third-class carriages worked in soot, ochre, and a sour pea green.
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“Daumier's colour is the soot of nineteenth-century Paris — ochre and grime with one bilious green that turns satire into a verdict.”
French caricaturist and painter whose lawyers and third-class carriages worked in soot, ochre, and a sour pea green.