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The Pink Cloud

c. 1896

Henri-Edmond Cross

(French, 1856–1910)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 54.6 x 61 cm (21 1/2 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.106
Public Domain
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Location
222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
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Drawn to the beauty of the landscape and the climate that improved his chronic rheumatism from its state in Paris, Cross moved to the south of France where he made a home with his wife, Irma Clare, in Saint-Clair, a small village near the coast.

Description

Due to his diagnosis of persistent rheumatism, Henri-Edmond Cross left Paris in 1891 and settled in the seaside village of Saint-Clair on the Mediterranean coast where the climate was more temperate. He expressed his enthusiasm for the French Riveria to his mother, “In the distance, the blue silhouette of the Maures and the Estérel—I have enough here to keep me busy all of life—I have just discovered happiness.” Once he had settled in the south, Cross adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique of Pointillism—applying paint in small dots or dashes of complementary colors that mix in the beholder’s eye to create an intense sensation of color and light. Here, a spectacular cloud is illuminated by the sunset. A pair of cypress trees link the garden landscape below to the vivid sky above.
A square oil painting made of repeated, thick dots of paint depicts a fluffy, pink cloud floating in the light blue, yellow, and pink sky in the upper two-thirds. A green landscape cast in dark purple and pink shadows in the lower third, and water in pinks and blues is at the horizon. Two dark blue bushy narrow trees extend into the lower edge of the cloud.

The Pink Cloud

c. 1896

Henri-Edmond Cross

(French, 1856–1910)
France, 19th century

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