Henri Edmond Cross
HenriEdmond Cross, born HenriEdmondJoseph Delacroix, was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of NeoImpressionism, and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was very influential to Henri Matisse and many other artists, and his work was an instrumental influence in the development of Fauvism.
HenriEdmondJoseph Delacroix was born in Douai, a commune in the Nord dpartement in northern France, onMay 1856. He had no surviving siblings. His parents, with a family history of ironmongery, were French adventurer Alcide Delacroix and British Fanny Woollett.
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