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

Last Monday’s Artist – George Brassaï
Next Monday’s Artist –

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Monday Morning Museum: Paul Victor Jules Signac

Paul Victor Jules Signac

Paul Victor Jules Signac – Wednesday 11 November 1863 Paris, France to Thursday 15 August 1935 Paris, France

French Pointillist Painter

Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseilles, 1905-1906

"Signac went even farther than Seurat in his methodical studies of the division of light into its components of pure color, and he arranged rectangular brushstrokes like tesserae in a mosaic.
In 1901 Signac had painted a smaller and less vibrant version of this view of the Marseilles, crowned by the church of Notre Dame de la Garde. The luminosity and brilliant color of the present picture are dependent on his continued use of unmixed pigments, but also on his contact with the young Fauve painters Henri-Edmond Cross and Matisse and Saint-Tropez in summer 1904." – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – Camille Pissarro
Next Monday’s Artist – Ellsworth Kelly

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Monday Morning Museum: Georges-Pierre Seurat

Georges-Pierre Seurat – Friday 2 December 1859 Paris, France to Sunday 29 March 1891 Paris, France

French Pointillist Painter


Having spent Monday 12 August 2002 on the island of La Grande Jatte, I have an even more positive feeling for – A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886 – than I did when I first saw it at the Art Institute of Chicago in the previous century.



Last Monday’s Artist – Rembrandt van Rijn
Next Monday’s Artist – Thomas Sully


Images:
Left: The Eiffel Tower, 1889 from the website the-anthenaeum.org
Center: Aman-Jean, 1882-1883 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: La Chahut, 1889-1890 from the website the-antenaeum.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent