Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

79 c HENRI-EDMOND CROSS Étude pour “Paysannes de l’Ombrie.” Color pencils on paper, circa 1908-09. 170x189 mm; 6 3 / 4 x7 1 / 2 inches. Ex-collection 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 from the art critic Félix Fénéon that confirms the auth­ enticity of this work and states this is a study for the oil Paysannes de l’Ombrie , 1909, painted during Cross’ second tour of Italy and formerly in the collection of Harry Kessler, Berlin. [5,000/8,000] 80 c HENRI-EDMOND CROSS Two drawings. Paysage , pencil and gouache on gray wove paper. 255x180 mm; 10x7 1 / 8 inches * Nu couché , charcoal on cream wove paper. 156x230 mm; 6 1 / 8 x9 1 / 8 inches. Inscribed in charcoal “Lumière frisante etraite designant le contour...,” lower right recto. Both with the artist’s red ink estate stamp (Lugt 1305a, lower recto). Both ex-collection private collection, Massachusetts. [2,000/3,000] 79 80