Lot 387
  • 387

Auguste Herbin

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Auguste Herbin
  • COMPOSITION SUR LES NOMS COMMUNS: ANGE, LION, FAUVETTE
  • Signed and dated Herbin 1942 (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 63 by 31 1/2 in.
  • 160 by 80 cm.

Provenance

Kunstmuseum, Basel
Galerie Chalette, New York
Donna Josey, Houston
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994

Exhibited

Paris, 54th Salon des Independants, 1943, no. 1547
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Geometric Abstraction of the 1930s, 1972, no. 73

Literature

Degand Léon, Auguste Herbin, Privatdruck der Basler Druck und Vergsanstral, 1955, illustrated pl. 4
Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1993, Lausanne, no. 798, illustrated p. 420

Condition

In good condition. Canvas is lined. A fine web of craquelure is stable with a slightly pressed surface as a result. Under UV light, a few pinhead-size dots of inpainting in the pink moon upper left and the white circle upper center, 4 spots 1/2 inch in diameter near lower right corner in blue pigment. Otherwise, a few scattered pinhead-size dots elsewhere.
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