Completed in 1912, L’Oise et le Chateau à Vadencourt is an iconic ex꧑ample of Herbin’s Cubist period.  It was here in this small village that Herbin painted his famous series of landscapes that defined his departure from Fauvism and his preference for a geometric st💎yle.

Influenced by both Cézanne’s retrospective exhibition at the 1907 Salon d’Automne and the new style being developed by Picasso and Braque, Herbin translated the objects he was painting into cylinders, cones and spheres.  He stood out from his contemporaries by fusing the bright colors of his Fauvist landscapes with the more somber palette of browns and dark greens that characterized early Cubist painting.  His inventive and energetic approach to the Cubist landscape created some of the most dynamic canvas✱es of his career and garnered him a position as a pioneer of the synthetic form of Cubism.  The present work was exhibited in 1914 at the Galerie Clovis Sagot, one of the first galleries to show the work of Picasso.