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HENRI-EDMOND CROSS Les Champs Élysées. Color lithograph on Chine volant, 1897. 203x262 mm; 8x10 1/4 inches, full margins. From Pan. Ex-collection Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, with the label on the frame back. A very good impression. Cross (1856-1910), along with Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, was one of the best known practitioners of Pointilism, an artistic style prevalent in France during the last two decades of the 19th century. This is a technique of painting in which small dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Seen from a slight distance, the viewers eyes and mind blend the dot patterns into ranges of colors. Cross' Les Champs Élysées, an everyday scene of Parisians casually strolling about and enjoying a beautiful summer day, certainly borrows heavily from Seurat's famous Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, 1884, now in the Art Institute of Chicago.