Auguste Herbin
HERBIN, AUGUSTE
1882 Quiévy/France - 1960 Paris
Title: "Printemps".
Date: 1955.
Technique: Oil on wood.
Measurement: 130 x 162cm.
Notation: Titled, signed and dated lower right: "printemps" herbin 1955.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.
Provenance:
- Galerie Denise René, Paris (label)
- Galerie Melki, Paris (label)
- Private collection Germany
Exhibitions:
- Galerie Denise René, Paris 1955
- Société Auxiliaire des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1956 (label)
- Kunstverein Freiburg 1958
- Galerie Denise René, Paris 1960
- Arhus Kunst Galleri, Copenhagen 1962
- Galerie Denise René, Paris 1972
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela 1978 (label)
- Musée Municipal, Cambria 1980
- Galerie Melki, Paris 1987
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York (label)
Literature:
- Claisse, Geneviève: Herbin - Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Lausanne 1993, cat. rais. no. 990, ill.
- Auguste Herbin is regarded as a pioneer of Concrete Art
- Work in the sense of the "alphabet plastique", the artist's specially developed compositional system
- An absolute specialty on the German auction market.
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