Village (Paysage à Mouthier-Haute-Pierre). 1922.
Oil on canvas.
Claisse 484 (here dated: 1923). Signed in lower right of the image. 73 x 100 cm (28.7 x 39.3 in).

• Atmospheric landscape with hints at New Objectivity.
• An early document of his interest in the decomposition of forms.

PROVENANCE: Galerie L’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (taken over from the artist in 1922 with the title "Paysage à Mouthier-Haute-Pierre", stretcher with the label and the gallery number 7880).
Collection Carl Laszlo, Basel.
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt (since 1964).
Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher, Switzerland (since 1977, inherited from aforementioned).
Private collection (since 2016, inherited from aforementioned).

EXHIBITION: Auguste Herbin, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, September 14 - October 15, 1967, cat. no. 46 (with illu. there with the title "Landschaft mit Felsen und Häusern").
Auguste Herbin, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1967-68, cat. no. 42 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Erika Pohl, Ursula Ströher & Gerhard Pohl (editor), Karl Ströher, Sammler und Sammlung, Stuttgart 1982, no. 221, illu. on p. 283.