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Musée des Beaux Arts - Lyon
From 1912 to 1914 La Fresnaye was a member of the Section d'Or group
of artists, and his work demonstrates an individual response to
cubism. He was influenced by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, but
his work has a more decorative than structural feel and his
prismatic colours reflect the influence of Robert Delaunay. He was a
member of the Puteaux Group, an
orphist offshoot of
cubism led by Jacques Villon. His most famous work is The
Conquest of the Air, 1913, which depicts himself and his brother
outdoors with a balloon in the background.
La
Fresnaye enlisted in the French army in World War I but contracted
tuberculosis and was discharged in 1918. His health deteriorated
rapidly after the war. He never recovered the physical energy to
undertake sustained work. In the later paintings that he did create,
he abandoned cubist spatial analysis for a more linear style. He
ceased painting in 1922 but continued to draw. De la Fresnaye died
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