Auguste Herbin

Galerie de L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Otto G. Carlsund, Stockholm
Acquired by the present owner by 1993

Paris, Galerie Clovis Sagot, 1914, no. 48
Stockholm, Galerie Aronowitsch, Herbin, 1984

Geneviève Claisse, Herbin Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1993, no. 295, illustrated p. 331

The canvas is not lined. There are artist's pinholes to all four corners, and there appear to be nos signs of retouching visible under UV light. There is some localised, stable paint shrinkage to the green in the upper right corner and some fine lines of craquelure in places. There are some scattered specks of paint loss and minor frame rubbing to the extreme edges, and a tiny paint loss to the pale blue pigment in the upper left corner. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition. Colours: overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though the red is slightly pinker in the original and the yellow pigments are slightly paler.
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