Henri Edmond Cross

Style: Post-Impressionism;Pointillism

Place: Douai

Born: 1856

Death: 1910

Nationality: France

Biography:

Henri-Edmond Cross (May 20, 1856 - May 16, 1910) was a French pointillist painter. Cross was born in Douai 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 1...