HENRI EDMOND CROSS | Étude pour 'Napées'

Théo van Rysselberghe, Paris
Private Collection, Paris (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, H.E. Cross, 1913, no. 59
Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale de Douai, Henri Edmond Cross et ses amis: Seurat, Signac, Angrand, Luce, Lucie Cousturier, Van Rysselberghe: centenaire de H. E. Cross, 1956, n.n.

Isabelle Compin, H. E. Cross, Paris, 1964, n.n., p. 312 (incorrectly described as 'oil on panel')

Executed on cream wove paper laid down on canvas. The sheet is lightly time-stained and the edges have been supported with tape, which is not visible in the frame. There are spots of foxing to the background and handling marks to the edges. There is a small patch of surface abrasion to the sheet towards the centre of the right edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Henri Edmond Cross being prepared by Patrick Offenstandt.