Roses dans un vase. 1905.
Oil auf Leinwand.
Claisse 65. Bottom left signed. 80 x 65 cm (31.4 x 25.5 in). [JS].

• This work is one of the artist's early post-impressionist still lifes which are characterized by a clarified duct and expressive colors.
• From the best period of creation in which Herbin turned to Fauvism.
• In 1907 Herbin and other Fauvist protagonists showed works at the Salon d'Autonome.
• Duct and colors show clear parallels with the contemporaneous creation of Henry Matisse and André Derain.
• The similar still life "Nature morte aux Chysanthemes" (Claisse 50) is part of the collection of the Museé Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis.

PROVENANCE: Collection Florence and Martin Flersheim, Frankfurt a.M. (acquired from the artist through Ludwig Schames in 1908).
Heriberto Flersheim, Buenos Aires.
Galerie Janos Peter Kramer, Buenos Aires.
Private collection (acquired from the above in the 1960s, ever since family-owned).