plants and completely abandons figurative painting. In the 1930s, he co-founded the group Abstraction-Création in Paris and served as publisher and author for the journal Abstraction-Création. Art non figurativ. In the second issue of the journal he wrote against the rising Fascism and oppression of all kinds. As a member of the Communist Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires he signed a statement against the political indifference of artists. Critical of Stalinism, he left the Communist party in the 1940s. Beginning in 1942, Herbin developed a language of form and color, his "alphabet plastique". Increasingly, his paintings consist only of colorful arrangements of triangles, circles and rectangles. In 1946 he was one of the founders of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, a successor of Abstraction-Création. He later served as the group's vice-president. Late life and death After 1953, Herbin was paralyzed on the right side, forcing him to paint with the left hand. He died in Paris on 31 January 1960. One painting remained unfinished—the motif of the painting was constructed on the word Fin. During the 2000s, an important series of original Herbin's signed rugs have been realised by Didier Marien from the Boccara Gallery with the agreement of the rights holders. Those rugs exhibited in France, but also in Moscow, London and New York played a key role in the worldwide rediscovery of Herbin's artistic creations. Public collections Among the public collections holding works by Auguste Herbin are: Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands National Galleries of Scotland Matisse Museum, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark Museum of Modern Art, Ceret, France References External links Culture.gouv.fr, Base Mémoire, La Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine Agence Photographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées Artistic rugs of Auguste Herbin with the Boccara Gallery 1882 births 1960 deaths People from Nord (French department) Abstract painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters Modern painters Cubist artists Painters of the Return to Order People of Montmartre French abstract artists