Nu. Nude. by Auguste Herbin, 1882-1960

Auguste Herbin, 1882-1960
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Nu. Nude.

Original lithograph in colours. 1959/60. Signed and dated in pencil. Inscribed by Herbin with the title. Numbered in pencil from the edition of 35 impressions only. Rare.

Extremely fine impression with excellent unfaded colours. On pale cream light wove paper. Generally excellent condition. Full (small) margins as issued. Sheet: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 ins. Image: 9 1/2 x 7 3/8ins (240x189mm)

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This rare lithograph is typical of the late period of Herbin?s art. Very few original signed prints by Herbin exist; the main series of 12 prints on which he was working at the end of his life was incomplete at the time of his death and only half of them were signed. This small scale work is unusual in being in lithography. In many years of dealing in prints of this period we have only seen this work once before.

Herbin was one of the key figures in the Abstraction-Création movement in Paris in the years just before the Second War, and in its development in the post-war years. He had been involved in Cubism around 1914 and in the 1920?s worked on ideas that parallel those of Leger. Construction of form remained at the root of his approach to composition, and it was from this base that he evolved the geometric treatment of shape, and use of areas of flat colour, which characterise his late work.This last period, typified by the style of the work above, was to prove to have a very significant role in the development of Parisian abstract art in the 15 years from the end of the War until his death.