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Monday, 23 November 2015, 06:00 pm

Auguste Herbin, Composition

Lot 79

Auguste Herbin, 1882-1960 (FR)

Composition, 1938

Oil on canvas, mounted on wood.
H 730 mm W 920 mm.

(Frame). Signed and dated lower right: herbin, 38.

CHF30'000 / 50'000
EUR27'000 / 45'000
USD32'000 / 50'000

Hammer Price: CHF 28'000

Annotation:

Provenance:
Collection Galerie L'Effort Moderne, L. Rosenberg, Paris;
Collection Peissi, Paris;
Collection Carl Laszlo, Basel;
Swiss private property.

Exhibitions:
Paris, Galerie L'Effort Moderne, 1938;
Brüssel, Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Herbin, rétrospective,
21st January - 5th February 1956. No. 54;
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft.
Auguste Herbin, 14th September - 15th October 1967. No. 81;
Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle.
Auguste Herbin,
15th December 1967 - 14th January 1968. No. 78;
Touring exhibition.
Der Sammler Carl Laszlo, Facetten der Moderne.
Potsdam, Orangerie im Park Sanssouci,
24th May - 19th June 1998;
Erfurt, Angermuseum, 2nd August - 4th October 1998;
Fellbach, Galerie der Stadt,
22nd October 1998 - 3rd January 1999.

Literature:
Exhibition catalog. Ines Geipel, Maren Ulbrich.
Der Sammler Carl Laszlo, Facetten der Moderne.
Potsdam, Vacat Verlag, 1998. Page 96, illustration;
Geneviève Claisse. Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint.
Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1993. No. 742, illustration;
Exhibition catalog. Auguste Herbin.
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1967. No. 81.