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1882-1960
PONT SUR L'OISE À VADENCOURT

measurements
29 1/2 by 33 1/2 in.

alternate measurements
75 by 85 cm

Painted in 1912.

Signed Herbin (lower right)

Oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Galerie L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, The Hague
Private Collection

EXHIBITED

Paris, Galerie Clovis Sagot, Herbin 1907-1913, 1914, no. 28

LITERATURE

Kunst an Kunst Leven, December 1948, p. 5
Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1993, no. 267, illustrated p. 326

NOTE

Painted in 1912, Pont sur l'Oise à Vadencourt is an iconic example of Herbin's Cubist period. It was here in this small French village near the border with Belgium that Herbin painted his famous series of landscapes that defined his departure from Fauvism and his preference for a geometric style.

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 canvases 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 Picasso's work and the first gallery to organize a one man show of Herbin's painting.