Henri Edmond Cross - Artist Info

About Henri Edmond Cross

Name variants

Edmond Cross, Henri-Edmond Joseph Delacroix
  • Biography

    Henri Cross was born in Douai, France and grew up in Lille. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts*. His early works, portraits and still lifes, were in the dark colors of Realism*, but after meeting with Claude Monet in 1883, he painted in the brighter colors of Impressionism*.

    In 1884, Cross co-founded the Société des Artistes Indépendants* with Georges Seurat. He went on to become one of the principal exponents of Neo-Impressionism. He began his Pointillist* period after spending time with Paul Signac in 1904. His later works are Fauvist*, perhaps influenced by his acquaintance with Henri Matisse.

    His final years, plagued by rheumatism, were spent in Saint-Clair, where he died in 1910. His pieces include The Churc...

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