The first room of the show zings with exuberant paintings and Daumier-worthy drawings.

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Daumier spent the last seven years of his life living in a country cottage, the gift of his friend Corot.

ECONOMIST: Honor�� Daumier

Here the wobbly lines and spectral make an unmistakable bow to Daumier.

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The following year he bought a second Renoir, two Gauguins, two Cezannes, two Manets, two Monets, a Daumier, a Seurat and a Van Gogh.

BBC: A Point of View: The art of collecting

It is one of the ironies of Daumier's career that he was always dependent on selling his works to the middle-class connoisseurs whom he parodied.

ECONOMIST: Honor�� Daumier

As an illustrator did he have the passion and individual vision that put a satirist such as Daumier (see article) into the category of great art?

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The retrospective of Daumier's work now on show at the Grand Palais in Paris (until January 3rd, then at the Phillips Collection in Washington from February 19th to May 14th) provides a fascinating overview of the full range of his talents.

ECONOMIST: Honor�� Daumier

This was, with a further sad irony, the only period in which Daumier, having toiled all his life to make a meagre living and now almost blind, managed to fulfil the conventional role of the fine artist far removed from the moral hurly-burly and commercial exigencies of the city.

ECONOMIST: Honor�� Daumier