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Dimensions: 31 7/8 by 39 3/8 in.
81 by 100cm
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Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Paris
Galerie Rive Droite, Paris
Private Collection
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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Moderne, Clovis Sagot, Auguste Herbin, 1914, no. 51
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Literature: Luc Estang, "Herbin le Rigoureux", Art d'Aujourd'hui, t. 1, no. 4, Paris, 1949
Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1993, Lausanne, no. 306, p. 333, illustrated
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Notes: Few exhibitions have influenced artistic practice so decisively as the 1907 Cézanne retrospective at the Paris Salon d¡¯Automne. In its wake, younger artists - including Herbin - shifted directions radically, opening up the arteries of Modernism. Trois Arbres aux bords d¡¯un sentier is a prime example of Herbin¡¯s iconic Cubist period, and a virtual translation onto the picture surface of Cézanne¡¯s famous call to treat nature with the "cylinder, the cone and the sphere." The present work was exhibited at the Galerie Clovis Sagot, one of Picasso¡¯s first art dealers, in 1914.
