Monday Morning Museum: Henri-Edmond Cross

Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1880 by Henri-Edmond Cross

Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix) – Tuesday 20 May 1856 Douai, Nord, France to Monday 16 May 1910 Saint-Clair, Var, France

French Pointillist Painter

Landscape with Stars, circa 1905-1908

"This poetic depiction of a star-streaked sky combines the long broken brushstrokes of Cross's late works with a murky landscape of pen and ink, reminiscent in its impressionistic forms of Japanese painting." – Metropolitan Museum of Art

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