1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Plus qu'un point! ... Pas de chance!! is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, depicting Playing, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s lithograph shows two men at a billiard table. One’s elderly, hunched over the green felt. The other stands straight, suit sharp against a busy background. Daumier’s lines are bold and quick, catching the moment like a snapshot. The trick here? Daumier’s sharp eye for everyday scenes. He makes fun of social gaps without saying a word. The old guy’s hat tilts, the younger one’s coat gleams—the contrast says it all. Try looking 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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