Lot 168
  • 168

Auguste Herbin

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • Auguste Herbin
  • Etude pour un carton d'invitation de la Galerie de l'Effort Moderne
  • signed herbin and dated janv. 1918 (lower left)
  • ink, gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper
  • 11.9 x 16.7 cm; 4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.

Provenance

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 21, 1990, lot 4
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, listed in the catalogue p. 35
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006

Condition

Executed on cream wove, not laid down, attached to the mount with tape at the upper corners. There are some glue residue at the upper corners and a few small spots of paper skinning to the lower corners. The work is slightly time-stained. This work is in overall very good condition.
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