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Signed 'Herbin' in dark blue lower right. - Titled in pencil at an early stage probably by an unknown hand 'Sous les arbres au Luxembourg 20 Juin 1905' to the reverse and inscribed "Herbin [underlined] 1905 - Exposition de Lille/voir l'Écho du Nord" upper right. With a confirmation of authenticity from Geneviève Claisse, Paris, dated 18 May 2011 (certificate no. 1231) This small early oil study features a motif from the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Its remarkably executed brushstroke, with its orientation in specific directions and set in parallel, as well as the vivid colours of the unmixed paint shows two aspects of Herbin's art at the young age of 23: firstly, that he had purposefully studied Impressionist painters and Paul Cézanne and, secondly, that he also knew the wider contemporary avant-garde, i.e. Post-Impressionism and the works of Vincent van Gogh. Moreover, Herbin created works which anticipated French Fauvist tendencies at an early stage in his oeuvre, in 1904, when his paintings first caught the attention of Wilhelm Uhde and the art dealer Clovis Sagot, who subsequently enabled him to give his first exhibitions. The climax of his early work is known to have occurred in 1907, with his landscapes of Corsica. Herbin, who was born in a village near Cateau-Cambrésis in the north of France in 1882, started to study in Lille, but discontinued his course almost immediately and moved to Paris in 1901. In 1905, after visiting various major retrospectives of Seurat, Van Gogh and Manet, he felt inspired to adopt a bolder style, to experiment and to refocus (cf. Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Lausanne 1993, p. 235). To him the motifs offered by Paris with its monuments and views were simply occasions to develop, vary and experiment with his composition, style and brushstroke. Herbin's works of these years include another view of the park at the Palais du Luxembourg (painting on canvas, 33 x 41 cm, 1904, Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, cf. Claisse 30). 22.1 x 27 cm