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"did_you_know": "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, \u201cIn the distance, the blue silhouette of the Maures and the Est\u00e9rel\u2014I have enough here to keep me busy all of life\u2014I have just discovered happiness.\u201d Once he had settled in the south, Cross adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique of Pointillism\u2014applying paint in small dots or dashes of complementary colors that mix in the beholder\u2019s 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.",
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"citation": "Compin, Isabelle. H.E. Cross. Paris, France: Quatre Chemins, 1964.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 151, no. 60",
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"citation": "Mettais, Vale\u0301rie. Histoire vivante de l'impressionnisme. Paris : Hazan, 2021.",
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"citation": "Robinson, William H. \"Modern European Painting.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 132-139, 142-149. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
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"citation": "Brown, Heather Lemonedes. \u201cColor, Sensation, and Memory: Themes in the Keithleys\u2019 gift and promised gift.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 3, 2022: Cover, 4-7.",
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"citation": "\"Exhibitions: Transformative Gift.\" Art & Antiques XLV, no. 10 (November 2022): 48-53.",
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"citation": "Cross, Henri Edmond. Henri-Edmond Cross. Lyon: Fage Editions, 2023.",
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