Auguste Herbin | "Composition"

HERBIN, AUGUSTE
1882 Quiévy/France - 1960 Paris

Title: "Composition".
Date: 1948.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 100 x 73cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: herbin 1948. Additionally inscribed and titled verso centre: HERBIN 32 BIS rue FALQUIÈRE à PARIS XVe composition.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.

Provenance:
- Galerie Melki, Paris
- Private collection Germany

Exhibitions:
- Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris 1949
- M.A.C., Caracas 1978

Literature:
- Claisse, Geneviève: Herbin - Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Lausanne 1993, cat. rais. no. 898, ill. (Here with a different title: "Helene")

- With its contrasting, colourful geometric forms a representative example of Auguste Herbin's late work
- From the artist's most important creative years
- Works by Auguste Herbin were shown at documenta I, II and V, among others