Lot 317
  • 317

Auguste Herbin

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Herbin
  • COMPOSITION
  • Signed Herbin (lower left)

  • Oil on canvas
  • 39 3/8 by 31 5/8 in.
  • 99.9 by 80.3 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Sale: Me Jean-Marc Delvaux, Paris, December 18, 1998, lot 51
Acquired at the above sale

Literature

Anatole Jakovski, Herbin, Paris, 1933, illustrated p. 53
Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1993, no. 686, illustrated p. 400

Condition

Work is in very good condition. Canvas is not lined. Some stable, thin craquelure in black and white pigments around upper center. Surface is slightly dirty. Minor rubbing visible around extreme edges, most noticeably at center of bottom edge. Under UV light: one nail head size spot of inpainting in white area toward lower left corner. Tiny strokes at extreme lower left corner and extreme upper left corner, as well as a a few strokes along center of left edge. Three inch vertical hairline stroke of inpainting towards lower right corner and two pindots at upper right corner. Otherwise fine.
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