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Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
Lot 1121

Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)

Athlète

Closed13 November 2015

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Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
Athlète
signed 'Herbin' (lower left)
gouache and watercolor over pencil on paper
7 ½ x 11 in. (18.8 x 27.8 cm.)
Painted in 1929

Galerie de l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris.
Louis B. Atlas, Buffalo (1935).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Specialist note

Geneviève Claisse has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

The present work is a preparatory watercolor for the painting Athlète from 1929 (Claisse, no. 650).