Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
From 15 March
to 15 septembre 2024
Musée de Montmartre
12 rue Cortot, 75018 Paris
The Musée de Montmartre is dedicating
a retrospective exhibition to Auguste Herbin (1882-1960).
The painter Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) is the best-kept secret of the modern art adventure. Yet he played an active part in all the creative breakthroughs of the twentieth century: fauvism, cubism, abstraction.
The man who lived for eighteen years at the Bateau-Lavoir produced, in his final style, a plastic alphabet with universal appeal, and works of astonishing beauty.
The Musée de Montmartre is the first museum in Paris to organise a retrospective devoted to this tireless pioneer, who is unjustly forgotten despite being a key figure in the history of modernism.
Auguste Herbin, Lune, 1945,
Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm,
Courtesy Galerie Lahumière, Adagp Paris 2023
Curators
Céline Berchiche, PhD in art history, specialist in Herbin
Mario Choueiry, project manager at the Arab World Institute, lecturer in the history of modern art at the Sorbonne Abu Dhabi and the École du Louvre.
