Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 5,460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
HENRI-EDMOND CROSS
Étude pour "Paysannes de l'Ombrie".

Color pencils on paper, circa 1908-09. 170x189 mm; 6 3/4x7 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, with the label on the frame back; Elliot Bloom, New York; private collection, Maryland.

This work is accompanied by a letter, dated March 26, 1930, from the art critic Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), also Cross's gallerist, that confirms the authenticity of this work and states this it is a study for the oil Paysannes de l'Ombrie, 1909, painted during Cross' (1856-1910) second tour of Italy and formerly in the collection of Harry Kessler, Berlin.