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Exhibitions

Daumier's paintings show he is at heart a sculptor

The artist didn't express what an action looks like, but rather what it feels like — as the Visions of Paris exhibition at the Royal Academy demonstrates

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

Daumier (1808–1879): Visions of Paris

Royal Academy, until 26 January

Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure

The Courtauld Gallery, until 12 January

There hasn’t been a decent Daumier exhibition in this country for more than half a century, so art lovers have had to be content with the handful of pictures in national collections and books of reproductions. This works all right for the lithographs, which were after all made to be reproduced, and it is on his high status as a satirical printmaker that Daumier’s fame principally rests.

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