Background
Roger de La Fresnaye was born on July 11, 1885, in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. His father was an officer in the French army.
Paris, France
Roger de La Fresnaye studied at the Académie Julian from 1903 to 1904.
Paris, France
Roger de La Fresnaye studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1904 to 1908.
Roger de La Fresnaye was born on July 11, 1885, in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. His father was an officer in the French army.
From 1903 to 1904, Roger de La Fresnaye studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and from 1904 to 1908 at the École des Beaux-Arts. From 1908 he studied at the Académie Ranson under Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier.
Fresnaye's own style developed about 1910 when he became aware of the work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso and associated himself with the Cubist group. His paintings L' Artillerie of 1911 and La Conquête de l'air of 1913 exemplified his highly personal interpretation of the Cubist idiom.
From 1912, without caring for the works of Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris or Léger in respect to aspects of nature, he portrays the objects that he fragments in a cubist way, but also in submits to the technique of the tint area that he models or is low-key. His first solo exhibition takes place in Paris in 1914.
La Fresnaye possesses a very pronounced taste for curves, circumferences and spheres, a style that he will share with Delaunay and Léger. The war erupts, Roger de La Fresnaye joins the Infantry; he produces a series of figurative drawings that show the lives of the soldiers. He enlisted in the French army in World War I but contracted tuberculosis and was discharged in 1918. Unfit for service, the artist moved to Grasse, France. Sensing the end of his life, La Fresnaye draws several self-portraits where he studied the progression of his illness.
He has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Rosenberg & Co. and at the Palm Springs Art Museum. His works have been sold at auction. 'La Conquête de l'Air avec deux Personnages' sold at Christie's Paris 'Impressionist & Modern Art' in 2017 for $2,552,633.
A Romanian
Landscape at Ferte Soud Jouarre
1911Still Life with Coffee Pot and Melon
1911Diabolo
1914Artillery
1911Seated bearded man
The Conquest of the Air
1913The Penholder
1918Seated man
1914Married Life
1913The table Louis Philippe
Standing nude from the front
1910The shepherdess. Spring Marie Child
1910Yellow tulips
1910Nudes in landscape
1910The Conquest of the Air
1913The entrance to the village
The Bouvier
Joan of Arc
1912Cows in a Meadow
1909Castor and Pollux
1922Self-Portrait
1908White House at Audierne
1909Smoking in the Shelter
1918Study for 'Le Pierrot'
1921Still Life, Tin of Tea and Pot of Tobacco
1913The Factory Chimney, Meulan Landscape
1912Man with a Red Kerchief
1922The Fourteenth of July
1914