Henri-Edmond Cross
Rio San Trovaso, Venice, 1903/04
On view
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Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
signed lower left: Henri Edmond Cross
Inv.-no. MB-Cro-04
The painting belongs to a group of compositions, which Cross executed after a longer sojourn in Venice. In the glaring light of the midday sun, the canal is shrouded in a luminous haze. The impasto application of jewel-like colors is characteristic of the artist’s late pointillist works.
Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, February–March 1904, no. 23
Exposition d’Art Français, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, May 28–July 21, 1907, no. 28
Internationale Kunstausstellung der Sonderbundes, Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, May–September 1912, no. 188
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, October 10, 2015–January 10, 2016; The Phillips Collection, Washington, February 6–May 8, 2016; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 10–September 18, 2016; New Orleans Museum of Art, October 14, 2016–January 16, 2017; Seattle Art Museum, February 16–May 23, 2017, no. 19
1904, Théo van Rysselberghe, Brussels, acquired from the artist
1912, Victor Freiherr von Mutzenbecher, Berlin
n.d., Marie Lange, Germany
n.d.–December 3, 1990, private collection, Germany, inherited from the above
1978–1990, permament loan, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
December 3, 1990, Christie’s, London, lot 18, consigned by private collection, Germany
n.d.–June 21, 2004, private collection, Belgium
June 21, 2004, Sotheby’s, London, Impressionist and Modern Art, Evening Sale, lot 38, consigned by the above
June 21, 2004–May 6, 2009, private collection, United States, acquired at the above sale
May 6, 2009, Christie’s, New York, Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale, lot 21, consigned by the above
May 6, 2009, The Paul G. Allen Collection, United States, acquired at the above sale
November 9, 2022, Christie’s, New York, Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection, lot 26, consigned by the above
Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, exh. cat. La Libre Esthétique, Brussels 1904, no. 23, p. 27.
“Petite Chronique”, in: L’Art moderne (April 3, 1904), p. 116.
Exposition d’Art Français, exh. cat. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld 1907, no. 28, p. 17 (titled Ponte Moro (Venise)).
Internationale Kunstausstellung der Sonderbundes, exh. cat. Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne 1912, no. 188, ill. fig. 26 (titled Canale grande).
“Les Carnets d’H.E. Cross”, in: Bulletin de la vie artistique, ed. Félix Fénéon (July 1, 1922), no. 13, p. 302.
Isabelle Compin: H.E. Cross, Paris 1964, pp. 208 and 220.
Donald E. Gordon: Modern Art Exhibitions 1900–1916, Munich 1974, vol. I, no. 1019, p. 224.
Jean-Jacques Lévêque: Les Années de la Belle Epoque, 1890–1914, Paris 1991, p. 452.
1912 – Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, exh. cat. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne 2012, no. 188, p. 561.
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, exh. cat. Portland Art Museum, Oregon 2015, no. 19, p. 88, ill. p. 89 and pp. 90–91 (detail).
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