Néo-Impressionism:

Henri-Edmond Cross

1856 – 1910

General info:
Born 1856/05/20 as Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix in Douai. Pupil of Carolus-Duran, François Bonvin (1875), Alphonse Colas (1878-81) and Émile Dupont-Zipcy (1881).
Exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français (1881). He was co-founder of the Société des Artistes Indépendants and exhibited almost yearly at their salons. Also exhibited with Les XX (at least in 1889), La Libre Estétique (several times). There was in 1905 a solo exhibition at Druet (with 30 oils + 30 watercolours), in 1907 at Bernheim-Jeune and in 1911 a large retrospective in Douai. One of his works was exhibited in the “impressionist” room at an exhibition in Rome in 1913.
Cross had friendships with other néo-impressionists like Seurat, Signac, Angrand, Dubois-Pillet, Luce, Théo van Rysselberghe. Since 1883 he wintered in the south of France, moving permanently in 1891 to Cabasson and later to Saint-Clair. He had close contacts with Signac, who had moved to closeby Saint-Tropez in 1892. Developed with Signac Divisionism from the dots of Pointilism to mosaic-like blocks of paint.
Untill about 1890 Cross had painted more in a Realist and an impressionist style. He stated that he was “far more interested in creating hormonies of pure colour, than in harmonizing the colours of a particular landscape” (iR3).
Cross also did meet future Fauve artists like Derain, Marquet and Matisse and influenced them.
Cross had anarchist sympathies.
Cross died 1910/05/16 in Saint-Clair (Var).
Sources: R56,p158-160;iR216;R300,p140-3;R16,p107;R229,p461-3. More info and pictures: HenriEdmondCross.org; WikiPedia (iR3); WikiMedia (iR6); WikiArt (iR7); Meisterdrücke (iR155).

 

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