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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.

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