Auguste Herbinartist • painterQuiévy (Frankrijk) 1882-1960 Parijs

Auguste Herbin created a thematically rich oeuvre, including still lifes, portraits and landscapes. Stylishtically seen, he was also versatile, influenced by impressionism, fauvism, cubism and abstraction. Herbin went to Paris in 1901, in those days the center of the international avant-garde. Cubism became visible in his work from 1910 through his contact with Picasso and Juan Gris. Around 1925 Herbin started working abstractly. He was co-founder of the group Abstraction-Création (1931) and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles (1947), and an important name in geometric-abstract painting. The painter Geneviève Claisse was his assistant in his last years and made the catalog raisonné of Herbin's oeuvre.