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Property of the Estate of Robin L. Farkas

Henri-Edmond Cross

Eucalyptus et oliviers

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of the Estate of Robin L. Farkas

Henri-Edmond Cross

(1856 - 1910)


Eucalyptus et oliviers

signed henri Edmond Cross (lower left)

oil on canvas

29 ⅛ by 36 ⅛ in.

74 by 91.8 cm.

Executed in Saint-Clair in July-October 1907.

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired by 1913 and until at least 1914)

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris

Georges Lurcy, New York

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 7 November 1957, lot 47 (consigned by the estate of the above) 

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Ambassador Ruth Lewis Farkas and George Farkas, New York (acquired by 1967)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Moscow, Salon de “La Toison d’Or”, 1908

Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunstpalast, Ausstellung des Sonderbunds westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, 1910, no. 27, p. 20

Douai, Hôtel de ville, 57ème exposition de la Société des Amis des Arts, 1911, no. 52, p. 20

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Henri-Edmond Cross, 1913, no. 24, n.p.

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Prima Esposizione internazionale d'arte della Secessione, 1913, no 5, p. 29

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Le Paysage du Midi, 1914, no. 12, p. 3 (dated 1908)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings from Private Collections, 1967, no. 24, p. 3 (titled Landscape with Eucalyptus Trees)

Revue du Salon de La Toison d’Or, vol. 3, nos. 7-9, 1908, p. 30, illustrated

Carlo Tridenti, “Alla Secessione—Le esposizioni Prencipe e Festa,” Rassegna Contemporanea, vol. II, no. 10, 25 May 1913, p. 672 

Alfonso B. Mongiardini, “Le Esposizioni del MCMXIII in Roma,” Rivista di Roma, vol. III, nos. 11-14, June-July 1913, p. 459

“Le Paysage du Midi,” Gil Blas, 9 June 1914, p. 4

Isabelle Compin, H. E. Cross, Paris, 1964, no. 198, pp. 63 and 297; p 296, illustrated 

Valentine Marcadé, Le renouveau de l'art pictural russe, 1863-1914, Lausanne, 1971, no. 18, p. 289

Manuel Carrera and Jolanda Nigro Covre, eds., Secessione Romana 1913-2013: Temi e problemi, Rome, 2013, p. 161 (footnote)

Patrick Offenstadt, Henri-Edmond Cross: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Neuilly-Sur-Seine, 2022, no. 154, p. 159, illustrated in color