Quai de la Poterie à Bruges

Details

Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
Quai de la Poterie à Bruges
signed 'Herbin' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 21¼in. (65 x 54cm.)
Painted in 1906

Provenance

Clovis Sagot, Paris.
Galerie de l'Effort Moderne [Léonce Rosenberg], Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 16 May 1984, lot 371.

Literature

D. Gordon, Modern Art Exhibitions 1900-1916, vol. II, Munich 1974, pp. 437, 558, 575 & 808.
G. Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne & Paris 1993, no. 74 (illustrated in colour p. 292).
A. Robins, exh. cat. Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, London 1997, p. 188.

Exhibited

London, Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, Nov. 1910-Jan. 1911, no. 101.
Berlin, Galerie der Sturm [Herwarth Walden], Erste Ausstellung: Der Blaue Reiter, Franz Flaum, Oskar Kokoschka, Expressionisten, March-April 1912, no. 37.
Berlin, Galerie der Sturm [Herwarth Walden], Zweite Ausstellung: Die Futuristen, April-May 1912, no. 54.
Paris, Galerie Clovis Sagot, Auguste Herbin, 1914, no. 2.
Paris, Galerie Resche, Auguste Herbin 1903-1909, May-June 1989, no. 9.

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Lot Essay

Quai de la Poterie à Bruges, executed during Herbin's most daringly fauve period, was subsequently exhibited at two highly important shows of contemporary art, namely the Manet & the Post-Impressionists exhibition in London in 1910, and then the first Galerie der Sturm show of Der Blaue Reiter in the spring of 1912. The London exhibition, staged at the Grafton Galleries, was instrumental in introducing Britain to the prevailing currents in French avant-garde art, from the improvisitory experiments in depicting modern life of Manet and the first Impressionist generation, via the pointillist and fauve adventures, through to the hermetic explorations of Picasso's analytical Cubism.

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