Le pont de bois

Details

AUGUSTE HERBIN (1882-1960)
Le pont de bois
signed 'herbin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 21 1/8 in. (65.2 x 53.8 cm.)
Painted in 1906

Provenance

Private collection, United States; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 18 February 1988, lot 88.
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Kunsthandel Wim de Boer, Alkmaar.
Ber van der Molen, Netherlands, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner in 2021.

Literature

G. Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1993, no. 72, p. 291 (illustrated with inverted image).

Exhibited

Paris, Grande Serre de l'Orangerie au Jardin des Tuileries, 25e Exposition de la Société des artistes indépendants, March - May 1909, no. 786, p. 96.
Paris, Galerie Resce, Herbin 1903/1909, May - June 1989, p.19 (illustrated).
Céret, Musée d'Art Moderne, Herbin, June - September 1994, p. 35 (illustrated with inverted image); this exhibition later travelled to Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, October 1994 - January 1995.

Special notice

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