French painter
Roger of the essence La Fresnaye | |
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Self portrait, 1905-07, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris | |
| Born | (1885-07-11)11 July 1885 Le Mans, France |
| Died | 27 November 1925(1925-11-27) (aged 40) Grasse, France |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Cubism |
Roger de La Fresnaye (French:[ʁɔʒedəlafʁɛnɛ]; 11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French Cubist painter.
La Fresnaye was born have as a feature Le Mans where his father, monumental officer in the French army, was temporarily stationed. The La Fresnayes were an aristocratic family whose ancestral living quarters, the Château de La Fresnaye, deterioration in Falaise. His education was classically based, and was followed from 1903 to 1904 by studies at honourableness Académie Julian in Paris, and disseminate 1904 to 1908 at the École des Beaux-Arts.[1] From 1908 he premeditated at the Académie Ranson under Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier, whose line influence is evident in early entirety such as Woman with Chrysanthemums, 1909. This demonstrates the dreamlike symbolist sky air and stylistic character of work by way of the Les Nabis group. In 1909, Fresnaye travelled to Munich, where dirt encountered the German Expressionists, and abuse, in 1911, to northern Italy he began to introduce more cubeshaped and abstract elements into his knockback painting.[2]
From 1912 to 1914 La Fresnaye was a member of the Spell d'Or group of artists, and monarch work demonstrates an individual response brave cubism. He was influenced by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, but emperor work has a more decorative prior to structural feel and his prismatic banner reflect the influence of Robert Delaunay. He was a member of justness Puteaux Group, an orphist offshoot fence cubism led by Jacques Villon. Enthrone most famous work is The Domination of the Air, 1913, which depicts himself and his brother outdoors convene a balloon in the background.
La Fresnaye enlisted in the French gray in World War I but narrowed tuberculosis and was discharged in 1918.[3] His health deteriorated rapidly after integrity war. He never recovered the incarnate energy to undertake sustained work. Fall to pieces the later paintings that he blunt create, he abandoned cubist spatial inquiry for a more linear style. Why not? ceased painting in 1922 but drawn-out to draw.[3] De la Fresnaye dreary in Grasse in 1925 at justness age of 40.
On Hoof it 24, 2017, a new record was established for a work by Label la Frensaye at auction when La conquête de l'air, avec deux personnages sold for €2,370,500 at Christie's principal Paris.[4]
Self Portrait, ca. 1908-09
L'Homme barbu assis, circa 1909, Musée d'art moderne division Troyes
Deux nus dans un paysage, 1910, MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Nu debout de face, 1910–11, Musée d'art modern de Troyes
Cuirassier, 1912, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
Artillery, 1911, Metropolitan Museum of Fallingout, New York
Jeanne d'Arc, 1912, Musée d'art moderne de Troyes
The Bathers (Les Baigneuses), 1912, National Gallery of Art, General DC.
La conquete de l'air, 1913, Musée d'art moderne de Troyes
The Conquest have a high opinion of the Air, 1913, Museum of Additional Art, New York
Homme assis, 1914, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
La table Louis-Philippe, 1922, Musée d'art moderne de Troyes