Crombac Collection
Galerie M.L. De Boer, Amsterdam
Private Collection, Netherlands
Acquired from the above

Paris, Grandes Serres de la Ville de Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1907, no. 2317
Paris, Galerie Denise René, Herbin, Acteur des révolutions picturales du siècle, 1996, n.n.

Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1993, no. 62, illustrated p. 290

The canvas is not lined but its backed with a second sheet of canvas. A rich impasto is well preserved. There are a few areas of thin craquelure especially in the dark green pigments in the center of the composition. Under UV light: there are several small areas of retouching in the green foliage at the center of the composition and 3 small areas in the vertical band along the left edge. There are also a few small spots just to the right of the flower pot and several strokes in the dark band along the bottom of the canvas, the largest being near the lower left corner. Otherwise fine, the work is in generally good condition.
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