The Cyclist (Le Cycliste)

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Object Details

Artist
Auguste Herbin, French, b. Quiévy, 1882–1960
Date
(c. 1930)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 1/8 × 63 1/2 in. (129.8 × 161.3 cm)
Collection Object Type
Painting
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Accession Number
86.2528

Galerie l'Effort Moderne (Leonce Rosenberg), Paris
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 20 October 1966, lot 108.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC, to 31 August 1981
Estate of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981-1986
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest," 7 August-16 November 1986, checklist no. 47.
SIDNEY JANIS GALLERY, New York. "Herbin: Paintings and Gouaches," 5-28 November 1987.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.

CLAISSE, GENEVIEVE. Herbin: Catalogue Raisonne de L'Œuvre Peint (Lausanne: Editions du Grand-Pont; Paris: Bibliothèque des arts, 1993), no. 644, ill. p. 393.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 69, p. 89.
See file for further info.

Signature
Signed LR In Oil: Herbin
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alternate Title
Abstract Composition
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