Naissance No. 1
Gift of the Maria and Conrad Janis Estate, 2024
Catalogue
- Year
- 1958
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 57 1/2 × 44 3/4 in. (146.1 × 113.7 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Auguste Herbin
Artist
Painting
Auguste Herbin was a French painter of modern art. He is best known for his Cubist and abstract paintings consisting of colorful geometric figures. He co-founded the groups Abstraction-Création and Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, which promoted non-figurative abstract art.
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Nude
1960 · Gouache on board
Auguste Herbin, Galerie Denise René
1960 · Letterpress
Laughter
1959 · Gouache, over traces of graphite on cream wove paper
Project for a Painting
1955 · Pencil, crayon, and ink on transparentized paper (recto); Pencil on transparentized paper (verso)
Madman (Fou) from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I
1953 · One from a portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions
Jour (Day)
1953 · Gouache on paper
Record
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- Auguste Herbin
- Year
- 1958
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 57 1/2 × 44 3/4 in. (146.1 × 113.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1958-009287
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified