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Show French satitit art to show The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah State College, announced an-nounced recently that an exhibition of 75 satiric, graphic works by Honore Daumier (French, 1808-1879) 1808-1879) will open Wednesday Wed-nesday evening at 7 p.m. The Cedar City String Quartet will present a gallery concert at 8 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. According to Prof. Thomas A. Leek, SUSC art curator, the exhibition was arranged with the Pratt Graphics Center in New York City. The Braithwaite Gallery exhibition concentrates on Daumier's political and social graphics. The exhibition will continue through June 26, 1981. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Groups are asked to schedule their visits in advance. Guide service is available.:, i.'. - '''. The goal of the vast majority of the French people in their support for the Revolution of-1789 was the establishment of a Republic, and the end of tyrannical monarchy and aristocratic privilege. However, Napoleon, in 1804, declared himself Emperor. The bourgeois-. democratic constitution of the Second Republic became null and void. '. During the next seventy . years, the French people struggled to win : a parliamentary govern- ment. It was ; the; productive period of. perhaps the world's greatest editorial , ; -draughtsman, r Honore Daumier.; ; ...-.' "Les Bas Blevs," a lithograph by Honore Daumier (French 1808-1879), will be part of an exhibition opening June 3 at the SUSC Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition of satirical, graphic works was arranged through the Pratt Graphics Center in . New York City. |