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Henri Edmond Cross
(French, 1856 - 1910)
Paysage de Bormes
1907
Oil on canvas
28½ x 36 inches / 72.5 x 91.5 cm
Signed lower left: Henri Edmond Cross
Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Count Harry Kessler, Weimar (acquired from the above in 1908)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, circa 1964
Private collection, Europe
Anon. sale: Sotheby’s London, 28 June 1978, lot 19
Private collection, Europe
Anon. sale: Sotheby’s London, 3 December 1985, lot 18
Charles Pankow collection, USA
Anon. sale: Sotheby’s New York, 5 November 2004, lot 177
Private collection, Europe, acquired at the above sale
Exhibited
Paris, Salon des Artistes Indépendants, 1910, no. 1221 (entitled Village de Bormes)
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Henri Edmond Cross, 1910, no. 22
Brussels, La Libre Esthétique, Rétrospective H.E. Cross, 1911, no. 46
Douai, Société des Amis des Arts, Hôtel de Ville, 1911, no. 50
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Henri-Edmond Cross, 24 February – 7 March 1913, no. 48
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting,
17 November 1979 - 16 March 1980, no. 57
Paris, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Cross et le Néo-impressionnisme, 20 October 2011 - 19 February 2012, no. 73;
this exhibition later travelled to Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, 11 March - 10 June 2012
Literature
H.E. Cross, letter to Maximilien Luce, 28 June 1908
H. Bidou, ‘Les Salons de 1910’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, May 1910, p. 363
J. Leroux, ‘H.E. Cross’, in La Vie Douaisienne, 22 July 1911
Compin, Isabelle, H.E. Cross, Paris, Quatre Chemins – Editart, 1964, no. 197, illustrated in black and white p. 295
J. Sutter, The Neo-Impressionists, London, Thames and Hudson, 1970, p. 74, illustrated in black and white p. 131
S. Walter, ‘Die Sammlung Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar und Berlin’, Die Moderne und ihre Sammler, Berlin, 2001, p. 88
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