1. Henri-Edmond Cross is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement.
17 Facts About Henri-Edmond Cross
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Henri-Edmond Cross was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists.
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Henri-Edmond Cross's work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism.
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Henri-Edmond Cross-Joseph Delacroix was born in Douai, a commune in the Nord department in northern France, on 20May 1856.
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Henri-Edmond Cross's studies continued for a short time in Paris in 1875 with Francois Bonvin before returning to Lille.
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Henri-Edmond Cross studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and in 1878 he enrolled at the Ecoles Academiques de Dessin et d'Architecture, studying for three years in the studio of Alphonse Colas.
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Henri-Edmond Cross painted many landscapes on an 1883 trip to the Alpes-Maritimes, accompanied by his family.
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Dr Soins, who was along on the trip, was the subject of a painting that Henri-Edmond Cross exhibited at Nice's Exposition Universelle later in the year.
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In 1884 Henri-Edmond Cross co-founded the Societe des Artistes Independants, which consisted of artists displeased with the practices of the official Salon, and presented unjuried exhibitions without prizes.
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Henri-Edmond Cross's work continued to manifest influences such as Jules Bastien-Lepage and Edouard Manet, as well as the Impressionists.
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In 1891 Henri-Edmond Cross began painting in the Neo-Impressionist style, and exhibited his first large piece using this technique in an Independants show.
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That painting was a divisionist portrait of Madame Hector France, nee Irma Clare, whom Henri-Edmond Cross had met in 1888 and would marry in 1893.
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Henri-Edmond Cross had wintered in the south of France from 1883 onward, until, suffering from rheumatism, he finally moved there full-time in 1891.
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When Henri-Edmond Cross wanted to depict quick impressions, he created watercolor or colored pencil images in his sketchbooks.
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Henri-Edmond Cross stated that the Neo-Impressionists were "far more interested in creating harmonies of pure color, than in harmonizing the colors of a particular landscape or natural scene".
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In 1909 Henri-Edmond Cross was treated in a Paris hospital for cancer.
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Henri-Edmond Cross participated in the Libre Esthetique show of 1895 at Maus's invitation, and in those of 1897,1901,1904,1908, and 1909.