1864
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Monsieur Colimard si vous continuez ... is a 1864 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a crowded theater box. Men in suits and women in fancy dresses lean forward. A ballet dancer on stage balances on one toe, arms lifted high. Daumier shows how people watch. The faces in the box look bored or distracted. Only the dancer gets their full attention. He draws each wrinkle and glove to show who’s really interesting in the room. Look up lithography next.
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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