Shade on the Mountain
This charming Neoimpressionist oil on canvas painting by Henri-Edmond Delacroix (Cross) is available on a range of Arty Stuff gifts and homeware, including phone and tablet cases, cushions and tote bags, posters, prints and canvases.
Henri-Edmond Cross was a practitioner of the Neoimpressionist style of painting, a short-lived avantgarde movement in the late nineteenth century which emphasized the use of separate touches of interwoven pigment to achieve greater vibrancy of colour in the observer’s eye.
Cross executed this landscape with a palette of contrasting hues, employing a technique that he adapted from Georges Seurat earlier in his career. Strokes of paint are layered across the canvas in varying density, while also leaving areas of primed ground exposed in the foreground and at the left side of the composition. The effect of Cross’s playful variation in brushwork is decorative as it draws attention to the flat, patterned designs of colour strokes.
This painting is originally titled, 'Valley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain)' and dated 1909.
Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
If you like this collection, you may also enjoy a companion range also by Henri-Edmond Cross, 'Pines Along the Shore'.
