Subject: Re: The Real Daumier
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 19:20:54 EST
Stranger and stranger.
One of Honore Daumier's most significant paintings is "Wandering
Saltimbanques" , it shows a family of wandering enertainers,
(Saltimbanques).
Picasso's painting Bruce refered to below is called "Family of
Saltimbanques" and shows a family of wandering enertainers he painted fifty
years after Daumier.
from a letter to a friend dated 22 June 1915, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke
describes sitting in Mrs. Koenig's apartment and looking at the painting
"Family of Saltimbanques"
"Wandering Saltimbanques" by Daumier
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/daumier/wandring.jpg.html
"Family of Saltimbanques" by Picasso
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?46382+0+0
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while leafing
through DDSBP last night, I saw another Rilke connection.
The narrator, in one of his fibs, talks about Picasso walking across his
[Picasso's] studio to look at a small reproduction of his painting "Les
Saltimbanques."
In 1915, Rilke, who had been forced to leave Paris for Germany because of
the war, was staying in Munich in the apartment of a friend who owned the
painting "Les Saltimbanques." ("... sitting here in the apartment of friends
(who have gone to the country) with the finest Picasso ("Les
Saltimbanques"), in which there is so much Paris that, for moments, I
forget.") The Fifth Duino Elegy (which deals with saltimbanques) is
dedicated to the owner who allowed Rilke to live with the painting for four
months.
AND the first American edition of The Duino Elegies, published by Norton &
Co. in 1939, has a small reproduction of "Les Saltimbanques" as a
frontispiece.
--Bruce
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So let's see we have Honore Daumier + Picasso + Rilke + Daumier-Smith all
tied together by Saltimbanques.
Saltimbanques.... Saltimbanques... weren't the Glass parents saltimbanques
at one time??
Paul
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