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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Auguste Herbin

Composition symétrique

Auction Closed

June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Auguste Herbin

1882 - 1960


Composition symétrique

signed herbin (lower left); dated juillet 1920 (lower right)

oil on canvas

72.7 by 60 cm. 28⅝ by 23⅝ in.

Framed: 87 by 74.5 cm. 34¼ by 29⅜ in.

Executed in July 1920.

Galerie L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (acquired by 1933)

Carl Laszlo, Basel (acquired by 1967)

Galerie von Bartha, Basel

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Anatole Jakovski, Auguste Herbin, Paris, 1933, p. 24

Geneviève Claisse, Herbin Catalogue Raisonné de L'Œuvre Peint, Lausanne, 1993, no. 399, p. 349, illustrated

Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Herbin, 1967, no. 32, illustrated

Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz Kunsthalle, Auguste Herbin: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1967-68, no. 28, illustrated