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Roger de la Fresnaye

Roger de la Fresnaye (1885 - 1925) was active/lived in United States, France.  Roger Fresnaye is known for Cubist and other modernist figure painting, ink drawing, nudes, still life, landscape.

Roger de La Fresnaye, (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 paintings of Maurice Denis (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.

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 and Pablo Picasso. La Fresnaye’s sensitivity to colour gave his Cubism an unorthodox sensuousness.

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