Lot 198
  • 198

Auguste Herbin

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Herbin
  • Abstraction
  • Signed Herbin (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 45 3/8 by 35 1/8 in.
  • 115.9 by 89.1 cm

Provenance

Galerie l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris 
Sale: Ader-Picard-Tajan, Paris, March 30, 1987, lot 19
Private Collection, France (acquired at the above sale)
Sale: Christie's, Paris, December 2, 2010, lot 111
Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London 
Acquired from the above 

Literature

Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1993, no. 625, illustrated p. 389

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas unlined and appears to be on its original stretcher. The surface is well-maintained and the pigments are extremely fresh and vibrant. Some very minor old frame abrasion visible along extreme perimeter. Some stable hairline craquelure visible in the thickest areas of white pigment at center and towards the upper edge and in the bright green pigment at center right. Under UV light: Some tiny spots of in-painting to white curve in lower right quadrant and a few spots of faint fluorescence in the green form at center right. Otherwise, fine.
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