La Fresnaye, Roger de

La Fresnaye, Roger de

▪ French painter
born July 11, 1885, Le Mans, France
died November 27, 1925, Grasse

      French painter who synthesized lyrical colour with the geometric simplifications of Cubism.

      From 1903 to 1909 La Fresnaye studied at the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts, and the Ranson Academy in Paris. In his early work he was influenced by the Symbolist (Symbolist movement) paintings of Maurice Denis (Denis, Maurice) (who was his teacher at the Ranson Academy), but about 1910 La Fresnaye developed an interest in Cubism. From 1912 to 1914 he was a member of the Section d'Or, a Cubist association that met regularly at the studio of the painter Jacques Villon (Villon, Jacques).

      Although La Fresnaye incorporated Cubist techniques into his paintings, he retained a naturalistic style, never fully embracing the radical analysis of form employed by Georges Braque (Braque, Georges) and Pablo Picasso. La Fresnaye's sensitivity to colour gave his Cubism an unorthodox sensuousness. He was influenced by the French painter Robert Delaunay (Delaunay, Robert)'s Orphist (Orphism) style, a strain of Cubism that emphasized lyricism and colour. La Fresnaye employed colourful prismatic shapes reminiscent of Orphism in works such as The Conquest of the Air (1913), but unlike Delaunay's abstract compositions, La Fresnaye's images are representational.

      After being discharged from the French army in 1918 because he had contracted tuberculosis, La Fresnaye went to the south of France to recover. There he continued to draw and paint in watercolour; he still worked with Cubist techniques, but he increasingly emphasized colour and emotion.

      Although La Fresnaye's paintings did much to popularize Cubism and to broaden its influence just before World War I, he later abandoned avant-garde art and became one of France's most influential advocates of traditional realism. During the last years of his life, he began to paint realistic works such as Portrait of Guynemer (1921–23).

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