id:			84371
accession number:	2020.106
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.106
updated:		2023-08-23 17:50:44.212000

The Pink Cloud, c. 1896. Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910). Oil on canvas; unframed: 54.6 x 61 cm (21 1/2 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.106

title:				The Pink Cloud
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creation date:			c. 1896
creation date earliest:		1891
creation date latest:		1901
current location:		222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright:			

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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 54.6 x 61 cm (21 1/2 x 24 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed lower left: henri Edmond Cross
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Societe des artistes independen</em>ts. Paris, France (April-May 1897).

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PROVENANCE

	(Hotel Drouot, Paris, France,  posthumous Atelier Henri-Edmond Cross sale, October 28, 1921, lot 25, purchased from the artist's estate)
	date: October 28, 1921
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			* <div><!--block-->Sold as “Nuages Rouges” (Red Clouds), 60 x 54.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	(Christie's New York, NY, November 9, 2000, lot 160, sold to Harry Krampf)
	date: November 9, 2000
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			* <div><!--block-->According to documentation provided by Galerie Hopkins-Custot in the curatorial file.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	(Harry Krampf Collection, Paris, France)
	date: 2000-?
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	(Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)
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	Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH,  given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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fun fact:
Drawn to the beauty of the landscape and the climate that improved his chronic rheumatism from its state in Paris, Cross moved to the south of France where he made a home with his wife, Irma Clare, in Saint-Clair, a small village near the coast.

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wall description:
Henri-Edmond Cross adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique of applying small dots or dashes of pure color in 1891. Around 1896, as seen in this view of a spectacular cloud, he shifted toward larger, more emphatic brushstrokes, often surrounded by areas of white to achieve greater color intensity. His daring use of pure, abstract color and decorative design significantly influenced Henri Matisse and the French Fauves (Wild Beasts). Beyond exploring scientific principles of color theory, Cross was an anarchist who associated the poetic beauty of abstract design with the values of an ideal, utopian society.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Compin, Isabelle. <em>H.E. Cross</em>. Paris, France: Quatre Chemins, 1964.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 151, no. 60
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	Mettais, Valérie. <em>Histoire vivante de l'impressionnisme</em>. Paris : Hazan, 2021.
	page number: 	Reproduced, P. 162
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	Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Color, Sensation, and Memory: Themes in the Keithleys’ gift and promised gift.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>62, no. 3, 2022: Cover, 4-7.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 5; Reproduced: P. 12.
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IMAGES

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