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Henri Cross was born in Douai, France 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 1884, Cross co-founded the Société des Artistes Indépendants* with Georges Seurat. He went on to become one of the principal exponents of Neo-Impressionism. He began his Pointillist* period after spendin (showing 500 of 1823 characters). |
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