Lot description
Erna Hoppe-Kinross, German/British 1875-1964 - Three works including 'Two men on a bench'; etching, signed in the plate upper right 'Erna Hoppe', 17 x 12.4 cm: together with 2 etchings by the same artist of similar size (3) (ARR) Provenance: the Family of the Artists Grace English and Erna Hoppe-Kinross Note: Hoppe-Kinross lived in Paris from 1906-14, where she exhibited at the Salons and at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. The present lot has been recorded to have been exhibited at Salon in 1907. She met her husband Charles Kinross there and they married. They had a holiday home at Giverny where they befriended Claude Monet - under his influence this was to become her most important period of painting.