1853
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Mes pauvres raisons, si vous ne revenez pas à la sauté... is a 1853 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This odd lithograph shows two men in a vineyard. Their faces are stretched long, like the grapevines behind them. The men look worried while the vines stare back with human eyes. Daumier made this during tough times in France. He used humor and exaggeration to poke at power and poverty. The surreal mix of real and strange feels unsettling. Wonder what else he did with lithography? Look up lithography online.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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