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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 3, 2015 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 16 | $****** - ****** | La Plage Ombragée |
paintings
114 x 146 cm (44.88 x 57.48 in)
oil on canvas
signed Henri Edmond Cross (lower left)
Harry, Graf von Kessler, Weimar (commissioned from the artist in 1902) Galerie de L’Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris (acquired by 1946) Josef Rosensaft, New York (sold:
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 11th May 1977, lot 20) Abigail Sheridan (purchased at the above sale) Galerie Schmit, Paris
Private Collection
Paris, Sociéte des Artistes Indépendants, 1903, no. 575 Nice, Palais de la Méditerranée, Grands Peintres contemporains, 1946, no. 8, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Le bain and with incorrect measurements) New York, Wildenstein Galleries, Seurat and his Friends, 1953, no. 62 (titled Bathers) Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres français XIXe-XXe siècles, 1989, no. 15, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Charles Guérin, ‘Salon des Indépendants’, in L’Ermitage, 1903, vol. 1, mentioned p. 316 Lucie Cousturier, ‘H. E. Cross’, in L’Art Décoratif, March 1913, illustrated p. 120 (titled Baignade) Adolphe Basler & Charles Kunstler, La Peinture Indépendante en France, de Monet à Bonnard, Paris, 1929, illustrated pl. 37 (titled L’heure du bain) Lucie Cousturier, H. E. Cross, Paris, 1932, illustrated pl. 2 (titled Le Bain) Claude Roger-Marx, Le Paysage français de Corot à nos jours, Paris, 1952, illustrated (titled Méditerranée) Isabelle Compin, H. E. Cross, Paris, 1964, no. 97, illustrated p. 192 Neo-Impressionism (exhibition catalogue), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1968, mentioned p. 40 Jean Sutter, Les Néo-Impressionnistes, Neuchâtel, 1970, mentioned p. 72 Cross et le néo-impressionnisme (exhibition catalogue), Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, Douai, 1998, illustrated in color p. 40 Sabine Walter, 'Die Sammlung Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar und Berlin', in Die Moderne und ihre Sammler, Berlin, 2001, mentioned pp. 70 & 88
