Musée de Montmartre

The Musée de Montmartre devotes a retrospective exhibition to Auguste Herbin (1882-1960).

The painter Auguste Herbin is the best-kept secret of the modern art adventure. Yet he played an active part in all the creative breakthroughs of the 20th century: fauvism, cubism, abstraction. The man who lived at the Bateau-Lavoir for eighteen years achieved, in his ultimate style, a plastic alphabet with universal appeal.

The Musée de Montmartre Jardins Renoir is the first Parisian museum to devote a retrospective exhibition to Auguste Herbin, in the city where he created all his life. It retraces the painter’s seven creative periods: postimpressionism, fauvism, cubism, monumental objects, new figuration, first and second abstraction, often with never-before-seen works. Here, Herbin regains his rightful place in the history of modern art, and presents us with first-rate works from each of his creative periods.

Among the many masterpieces on display, you may spot the painting “Père & Mère”(1943) on loan by Applicat-Prazan.