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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Daumier and Oliphant at the Phillips


WHAT: Political Wits, 100 Years Apart: Daumier and Oliphant at the Phillips
Art thumbs its nose at politics in this election-inspired gallery, featuring works by HonorĂ© Daumier (French, 1808–79) and Patrick Oliphant (Australian, b. 1935) from the museum's permanent collection.
A master of caricature and satire, Daumier so lampooned King Louis-Philippe that the artist was charged with sedition and imprisoned for six months in 1832. Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Oliphant—whose work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Library of Congress and published in the New Yorker, New York Times, and Washington Post—had a deep and longstanding admiration of Daumier. During a Daumier retrospective at the Phillips in 2000, Oliphant produced a lithograph inspired by the exhibition and proclaimed in his Washington Post review, "Monsieur Daumier, you certainly are a humbler."

WHEN: On view through the Presidential Inauguration, Jan. 20, 2013
COST: Weekends (Sept. 18–Oct. 5, 2012, and Jan. 7–20, 2013):
$10 for adults, $8 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under
Weekends (Oct. 6, 2012–Jan. 6, 2013):
$12 for adults, $10 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under
Weekdays: by donation
WHERE: The Phillips Collection
1600 21st St., NW. Metro: Dupont Circle (Q St. exit)

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