Henri-Edmond Delacroix, known as Henri-Edmond... - Lot 35 - Ader

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Henri-Edmond Delacroix, known as Henri-Edmond... - Lot 35 - Ader
Henri-Edmond Delacroix, known as Henri-Edmond CROSS (1856-1910). 12 autograph leaves of which 8 with drawings; 18 pages in-12 or in-16 in pencil, 4 bearing the workshop stamp. Notes and sketches. Accounts, list of books, notes for a trip to Milan and Verona, train timetables, list of works exhibited at Vollard's in 1901 (Le Bal villageois, La Lavandière, Vue de Menton, etc.).), list of paintings to be seen at the Lyon Museum with a drawing of Bathsheba at Veronese's bath; reflections: "Nothing indeed in Nature has any value in itself; the world of reality is an indifferent matter which has no other interest than the one we give it"; "To make out of nothing an enormous, sublime thing. A simple figure, a tree, etc. All the great ones have conceived in this way. I have always looked for the complicated. "Drawing of an arcade with these explanations: "The column has in the ratio of its diameter the proportions of the Doric order. This ratio is from 1 to 6, and from 1 to 7. The height is equal to the width of the arcade according to the principle of Vitruvius and Pliny. He draws a woman sitting with her back to the open air, with these indications: "straw hat with ribbon and pink belt - white muslin dress. Curly hair in corkscrews ". Underneath two chubby children's faces, he writes: "Nothing is flat in Nature; only man's thought is flat". He sketches standing female figures, and a man and a dog from behind.
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