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Lot 46
  • 46

Auguste Herbin

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 EUR
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Description

  • Auguste Herbin
  • Composition
  • signed Herbin (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 130.5 by 60 cm ; 51 3/8 by 23 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Walter S. Brewster, Chicago
Martin Gecht, Chicago
Maurice Walk, Highland Park
Private Collection, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Madrid, Galería Guillerma de Osma, Construyendo utopías, de De Stijl a la New Bauhaus, 2011-2012, no. 28

Literature

Geneviève Claisse, Herbin Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1993, no. 668, illustrated p. 397

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There is some very minor stable craquelure in the yellow and white pigment towards the bottom. UV light reveals two 1cm spots of retouching: one in the yellow circle and one in the white to the left of this. Otherwise this work is in very good condition.
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