Aux Champs Elysees - In the Champs Elysees. Les Nourrices. Nannies and Children. by Henri Edmond Cross, 1856-1910

Henri Edmond Cross, 1856-1910
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Aux Champs Elysees - In the Champs Elysees. Les Nourrices. Nannies and Children.

Original lithograph in colours. 1898. Signed in soft pencil. Numbered 'L' (50) in red chalk. From the extremely rare signed first collector's edition of 50 impressions. Before the de-luxe edition (75 impressions) and the regular issue. Drawn and printed at the studio of Clot, Paris 1898. Commissioned by Meier-Graefe for the Pan album. Published in Berlin 1898.
Bibliography: Cate & Hitchings The Color Revolution 1978 p25

Superb rich impression with glowing fresh colours. On chine applique on a cream japan paper backing sheet, as issued. Excellent condition. Full margins - complete with the Pan blindstamp. Sheet: 12 5/8 x 20 l/2ins. Image/china paper: 7 3/4 x 10 l/4ins (200x260mm)

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A very rare signed impression from the first 'collector's edition' of one of the most beautiful colour lithographs of the 'pointillist' school.

Pointillism was one of the most interesting and visually evocative movements of Post Impressionism. It advocated the creation of a glowing visual sensation of light through the juxtaposition of dots of pure colour so that, for example, the placing together of yellow and red creates an enhanced radiance of colour. This lithograph by Cross, with the nursemaid and the child in the gardens by the Champs Elysees, and with the movement of carriages and strollers in the background on the avenue, shows to beautiful perfection the way that these ideas could be extended into the medium of colour lithography. The sense of sunlight and of intimate emotion makes it one of the most visually appealing of post-impressionist prints. The movement of pointillism was founded by Signac and Seurat, and they were joined almost immediately by Cross. The initial concept had been conceived almost instinctively by Seurat,
but it was Signac, his close friend, who formalised their ideas eventually publishing the manifesto of Neo-Impressionism, as they called it. Cross brought to them ideas of composition and a symbolist-derived expression of emotion through patterns of form which links them to the work of the Nabis.