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Learn MoreVases aux chrysanthèmes by Auguste Herbin
- French painter Auguste Herbin created this vibrant still life
- Herbin's bold and daring palette exhibits a remarkable modernism
- The artist cofounded the visionary Abstraction-Création group in Paris in the 1930s
- Herbin’s work resides in prestigious private and public collections around the globe
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1882-1960 | French
Vases aux chrysanthèmes
Signed 'Herbin' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
This bold and vivid still life was composed by French painter Auguste Herbin, a pioneer in popularizing Modernist abstraction. Over his expansive nearly 60-year career, Herbin rubbed shoulders with art history greats from Pablo Picasso to Georges Braque while honing his personal and innovative style. With a daring color palette and crisp composition, Vases aux chrysanthèmes represents. . .
1882-1960 | French
Vases aux chrysanthèmes
Signed 'Herbin' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
This bold and vivid still life was composed by French painter Auguste Herbin, a pioneer in popularizing Modernist abstraction. Over his expansive nearly 60-year career, Herbin rubbed shoulders with art history greats from Pablo Picasso to Georges Braque while honing his personal and innovative style. With a daring color palette and crisp composition, Vases aux chrysanthèmes represents a transformative moment in the artist's career.
Auguste Herbin began his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille before moving to Paris in 1901. In the early years of his career, he experimented with a variety of styles, exhibiting Post-Impressionistic works at the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 and Fauvist paintings at the Salon d'Automne in 1907. After a brief Cubist period following his introduction to Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Otto Freundlich, Herbin co-founded his own artistic movement in the 1930s: the Abstraction-Création group in Paris. Devoted to encouraging abstract art as a response to the representational tenets of the Surrealist movement, then led by André Breton, Herbin served as the publisher and author for the group's eponymous art journal. Today, Herbin’s work resides in prestigious private and public collections around the globe, including the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.
This painting is pictured in Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint by Geneviève Claisse, page 287.
Painted 1904
Canvas: 32" high x 32” wide
Frame: 40 1/4“ high x 40 1/4" wide x 2 1/2“ deep
Literature:
Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint/em>, Paris 1993, no. 47, p. 287, illustrated
Exhibitions:
Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 23ème Exposition, 1907, no. 2317, p. 147 (titled Chrysanthèmes)
Provenance:
Crombac Collection, Paris (acquired by 1907)
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam
M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam
Kunsthandel Wending, Amsterdam
Sotheby's, New York, 21 February 1985, lot 11A (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, United States
Nathan Family Collection, New Orleans
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
Maker: | Herbin, Auguste |
Period: | 1816-1918 |
Origin: | France |
Type: | Paintings |
Style: | Post-Impressionism |
Depth: | 2.5 in. (6.35 cm) |
Width: | 40.25 in. (102.24 cm) |
Height: | 40.25 in. (102.24 cm) |
Canvas Width: | 32.000 in. (81.28 cm) |
Canvas Height: | 32.000 in. (81.28 cm) |
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