| Henri-Edmond Cross was born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix in Douai on 20 May 1856. He changed his name in 1883 for the obvious reason that it was too similar to that of Henri-Eugène Delacroix. After training under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran in Lille, Cross enrolled at the Écoles Académiques de Dessin et d'Architecture in Lille in 1878 to continue his studies under Alphonse-Victor Colas. In 1881 Cross moved to Paris, travelling to the South of France in 1883. At the newly established Salon des Indépendants in 1884, Cross met Seurat and Signac, who would soon establish the Neo-Impressionist movement.
Henri-Edmond Cross painted his first picture in the pointillist-divisionist manner in 1891.
In 1903 Cross went to Venice, which inspired him to work in watercolours and oils. The following year he met Matisse at Saint-Tropez. Henri-Edmond Cross died in Saint-Clair on 16 May 1910. |
