Galerie de L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Otto G. Carlsund, Stockholm
Private Collection, Sweden (sale: Sotheby's, London, 6th February 2013, lot 119)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Clovis Sagot, Exposition Auguste Herbin, 1914, no. 48
Stockholm, Galerie Aronowitsch, Herbin, 1984, n.n.

Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1993, no. 295, illustrated p. 331

The canvas is not lined. There are artist's pinholes to all four corners. Under UV light there is a fine line of retouching (approx. 3cm.) running vertically from the left part of the lower edge in the pink pigment and another small spot to the blue pigment in the upper left corner. There is some localised, stable paint shrinkage to the green in the upper right corner and some fine lines of craquelure in places notably the light green section beneath the centre of the composition. There are some scattered specks of paint loss and minor frame rubbing to the extreme edges, and a tiny spot of surface paint loss to the pale grey pigment towards the centre of the left edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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