Auguste HERBIN (1882-1960) Cloud, 1955 Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and titled lower left. (Craquelures). 89 x 116 cm Provenance : - Collection Larivière, Montreal. - Galerie Melki, Paris (label on back of stretcher). - Private collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine. Exhibitions : - Galerie Denise René, Paris, 1955, no. 14. - Galerie Melki, Paris, 1987. Bibliography: - Art International, n° 19, February 1975, reproduced pp. 42-43. - Réalités Nouvelles, no. 9, 1955, reproduced on cover. - Geneviève Claisse, Herbin. Catalog raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, Éditions du Grand-Pont - La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1993, reproduced p. 56.

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