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Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix was born in Douai, [1] a commune in the Nord department in northern France, on 20 May 1856. He had no surviving siblings. His parents, with a family history of ironmongery, [2] were Alcide Delacroix, a French adventurer, and British Fanny Woollett.
Original – Les cyprès à Cagnes, or Cypresses at Cagnes, 1908, by Henri-Edmond Cross Reason Is among the late works of the artist, after shifting his technique from Pointillism to "broad, blocky brushstrokes". Illustrates the "second generation Neo-Impressionism strategy" of keeping "the colors separate".
The brightly colored composition was painted in 1904 after a summer spent working in St. Tropez on the French Riviera alongside the neo-Impressionist painters Henri-Edmond Cross and Paul Signac. [14] The painting is Matisse's most important work in which he used the Divisionist technique advocated by Signac, which Matisse had adopted in 1898 ...
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File: Henri-Edmond Cross, 1908, Les cyprès à Cagnes, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.jpg
Les XX was founded on 28 October 1883 in Brussels and held annual shows there between 1884 and 1893, usually in January–March. The group was founded by 11 artists who were unhappy with the conservative policies of both the official academic Salon and the internal bureaucracy of L'Essor, under a governing committee of twenty members.
Self-portrait, c. 1925–1930. Maximilien Luce (French pronunciation: [maksimiljɛ̃ lys]; 13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, graphic art, and his anarchist activism.