The Drinkers (after Daumier) Men Drinking (after Daumier) Vincent van Gogh Date: 1890; Saint-rémy-de-provence, France * Style: Post-Impressionism Genre: genre painting Media: oil, canvas Dimensions: 73.4 x 59.4 cm Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
In 1882 Van Gogh had remarked that he found Honoré Daumier's The Four Ages of a Drinker both beautiful and soulful.[11]
Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo of Daumier's artistic perspective and humanity: "What impressed me so much at the time was something so stout and manly in Daumier's conception, something that made me think It must be good to think and to feel like that and to overlook or ignore a multitude of things and to concentrate on what makes us sit up and think and what touches us as human beings more directly and personally than meadows or clouds."[12] Daumier's artistic talents included painting, sculpting and creating lithographs. He was well known for his social and political commentary.[13]
Van Gogh made Men Drinking after Daumier's work in Saint-Remy about February 1890.
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