HENRI-EDMOND CROSS (1856-1910)
Ponte Moro, Rio Grimani (Venise), 1903-1904
Oil on canvas
59.2 x 73 cm (23 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Copyright/Photo credit
Provenance
- Galerie E. Druet, Paris
- Adolf and Anna Langen, Cologne, circa 1908
- Viktor and Marianne Langen, Meerbusch (by descent from the above and thence by descent)
- Christie's, New York, 7 May 2014, lot 345
- Private Collection (acquired at the above)
Exhibitions
- Paris, Grandes serres de l'alma, Exposition de la Société des Artistes Indépendants, February- March 1904, no.604
- Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Henri-Edmond Cross, April-May 1907, no.32
- Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Französisch Kunstausstellung, May-July 1907, no.28, p.17
- Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Exposition de peintures et d'aquarelles de Henri Edmond Cross et Paul Signac, June-July 1911, no.4
- Cologne, Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Internationale Kunstausstellung der Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler zu Cöln, May-September 1912, no.190, p.37 (titled Ponte-Moro)
The painting has been requested for the exhibition at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam and the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2026/27.
Literature
- Letter from Cross to Charles Angrand, 3 February 1904
- Letter from Cross to Charles Angrand, 7 February 1904
- T. Leclère, "Les Indépendants," La Plume, 15 March 1904, p.348
- "À travers Paris," Le Figaro, 22 April 1907
- F. Fénéon, "Les Carnets de H.E. Cross," Le Bulletin de la Vie artistique, 1 July 1922, p.302
- L. Cousturier, H.E. Cross, Paris, 1932, pl.12, illus. (titled Canal à Venise)
- Compin, H.E. Cross, Paris, 1964, pp.208, 211-212, no.115, illus.
- V. and M. Langen, Kunst des 20ten Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Viktor und Marianne Langen, Ascona, 1986, vol.I, pp.9-10, illustrated
- Exh. cat., 1912, Mission modern. Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, Cologne, 2012, p.561, illustrated.
- Patrick Offenstadt, Catalogue raisonné of Henri Edmond Cross, Paris, 2022, p.214,no.200, illustrated in color.