The Cutting Edge of Fashion
- – This is a past exhibition
Selected from the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection.
The Cutting Edge of Fashion pokes fun at the modes of the day in Paris, the nineteenth-century capital of elegant dress. Daumier's caricatures highlight the prevalent styles for men and women as well as mock some of the unwieldy and challenging designs of women's haute couture.
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Honoré Daumier, Danger of wearing balloon skirts during the Equinox wind storms., 1857Lithograph, from the series Actualités published in Le Charivari. The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. -
Honoré Daumier, The Trouble of steel-reinforced petticoats when the spring breaks., 1857Lithograph, from the series Croquis Parisisens published in Le Charivari. The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. -
Honoré Daumier, That's odd! I've had my arm around four waists just like those in my life; Fifine my first love!, Cocotte, that tart Cocotte!, big Mimi, and my wife up there in the corner., 1840Lithograph, from the series Emotions Parisiennes published in Le Charivari. The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. -
Honoré Daumier, C'est singulier comme ce miroir m'aplatit la taille et me maigrit la poitrine!...Que m'importe?... Mme. de Staël et Mr. Buffon l'ont proclamé...le genie n'a point de sexe., January 30, 1844Lithograph. The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Des dames d'un demi-monde, mais n'ayant pas de demi-jupes, May 11, 1855Lithograph. The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.