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The Pink Cloud
Provenance
October 28, 1921: (Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, posthumous Atelier Henri-Edmond Cross sale, October 28, 1921, lot 25, purchased from the artist's estate) November 9, 2000: (Christie's New York, NY, November 9, 2000, lot 160, sold to Harry Krampf) 2000-?: (Harry Krampf Collection, Paris, France) (Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) -2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2020-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
About the Artwork
Due to his diagnosis of persistent rheumatism, Henri-Edmond Cross left Paris in 1891 and settled in the seaside village of Saint-Clair on the Mediterranean coast where the climate was more temperate. He expressed his enthusiasm for the French Riveria to his mother, “In the distance, the blue silhouette of the Maures and the Estérel—I have enough here to keep me busy all of life—I have just discovered happiness.” Once he had settled in the south, Cross adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique of Pointillism—applying paint in small dots or dashes of complementary colors that mix in the beholder’s eye to create an intense sensation of color and light. Here, a spectacular cloud is illuminated by the sunset. A pair of cypress trees link the garden landscape below to the vivid sky above.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: henri Edmond Cross
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). Painting the French Riviera. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (October 2, 2026-January 31, 2027); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-July 11, 2027).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910)
- Date
- c. 1896
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 54.6 x 61 cm (21 1/2 x 24 in.); Framed: 78.9 x 86 x 8.9 cm (31 1/16 x 33 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.106
More by Henri Edmond Cross in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009626
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