Private Collection 20" x 16" Attrib. with certificate. Auguste Herbin 29 April 1882 - 31 January 1960 was a French painter of modern art, He is best known for his Cubist and abstract paintings consisting of colorful geometric figures. attributed to Auguste Herbin He co-founded the groups Abstraction Creation and Salon des Realites Nouvelles which promoted non figurative abstract art.After producing his first abstract paintings in 1917, Herbin came to the attention of Léonce Rosenberg who, after World War I, made him part of the group centred on his Galerie de l'Effort Moderne and exhibited his work there on several occasions in March 1918 and 1921. Herbin's radical reliefs of simple geometric forms in painted wood, such as Colored Wood Relief (1921; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne), challenged not only the status of the easel painting but also traditional figure–ground relationships. The incomprehension that greeted these reliefs and related furniture designs, even from those critics most favorably disposed towards Cubism, was such that until 1926 or 1927 he followed Rosenberg's advice to return to a representational style and produced paintings in the New Objectivity style.

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