Sale: 459 / Modern Art I, Dec. 09. 2017 in Munich Lot 648

 

648
Auguste Herbin
Le vieux port de Bastia, 1907.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 / $ 75,600
Sold:
€ 562,500 / $ 607,500

(incl. surcharge)
Le vieux port de Bastia. 1907.
Oil on canvas.
Not in Claisse. Lower left signed. With title "Barque sur le vieux port de Bastia" on the stretcher. 46 x 55 cm (18.1 x 21.6 in).

Accompanied by a photo expertise from Geneviève Claisse issued on 5 September 2017.

PROVENANCE: Siegfried and Gesche Poppe, Hamburg (since 1967 the latest).
Collection Rohleder, Hamburg (inherited from present owner).

EXHIBITION: Auguste Herbin. Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover 14 September – 15 October 1967, cat. no. 3, no illu (with exhibition label on the stretcher).
Auguste Herbin, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 15 December 1967 – 14 January 1968, cat. no. 3, no illu.

There is hardly any other representative of French Modernism next to Auguste Herbin whose art shows such a clear stylistic development that goes all the way to abstraction. While his roots are in Pointillism, Herbin soon attained a moderate form of Fauvism that bears the best elements of late Impressionism.The styleis entirely born from the color, a quality that finds fulfillment in this work. The scene‘s elementary luminance provides a sunny cheerfulness that is second to none. The strong and broad brush strokes capture the scene with great immediacy and add a fresh presence to the painting that could hardly be more striking. Even though Auguste Herbin did not settle with this type of interpretation, it marks a decisive point in his oeuvre on the path to abstraction by means of geometric pictorial elements, the fundament of his distinguished late period of creation. [KD]



648
Auguste Herbin
Le vieux port de Bastia, 1907.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 / $ 75,600
Sold:
€ 562,500 / $ 607,500

(incl. surcharge)