Henri Edmond Cross
Regatta in Venice

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Artist Henri Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910)French, 1856–1910

CultureFrench

Titles

Regatta in Venice

DateSeptember 1903–January 1904

PlaceFrance

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 29 × 36 1/2 in. (73.7 × 92.7 cm)
Frame: 37 3/4 × 45 3/8 × 4in. (95.9 × 115.3 × 10.2cm)

Credit LineGift of Oveta Culp Hobby

Object number58.17

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

221 Shell Oil Gallery

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

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Provenance[Galerie Druet Paris (on deposit from the artist)]; Madame Henri-Edmond Cross, Paris; [Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris]; Gaston Lévy, Paris (? by 1930–1934?); Natasha F. Fliegers, born Fruma Josefowitz, Paris and New York, by 1938–1953 (deposited at Knauer, Paris, 1938; looted by German Möbel Aktion; transferred to the Jeu de Paume 1 June 1943; stored at the Nikolsburg castle, May 1944; retrieved by the Allies and sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 21 March 1946 (as “owner unknown”); sent to Paris 25 September 1947; restituted to the French Commission de Récupération Artistique; restituted to Natasha Fliegers, aka Fruma Fliegers, 10 May 1949; consigned to the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, May 1953); Mrs.Oveta Culp Hobby, The Houston Post Company, purchased February 8, 1954; given to MFAH, 1958.
Exhibition History"Societe des Artistes independants," Paris, France, 1904.

"Elften Ausstellung der Berliner Secession," Berlin, 1906.

"H.E. Cross," Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France, 1910.

"H.E. Cross," Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France, 1913.

"Den Franske Ustilling i Kunstnerforbundet," Kristiana, 1916.

"Seurat et ses Amis," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1933–1934.

Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation, March 3–March 5, 1959.

Mrs. William P. Hobby (Oveta Culp Hobby), Houston, November 11, 1968–August 17, 1972.

"Color and Light: The Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross," Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, November 17, 2018–February 17, 2019.

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