Françoise Lucbert will deliver a lecture, “Roger de la Fresnaye: Cubism and Tradition,” on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Wagner College’s Spiro Hall Rm. 4. The public is invited. Lucbert is a professor of art history at the Université du Maine in Le Mans, France. Her essay on de la Fresnaye appeared in the exhibition catalogue for a showing of the artist’s work at the Musee du Mans, Roger de la Fresnaye: Cubisme et tradition (2005).
Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925) was a French cubist and fauvist painter. A member of the Section d’Or group from 1912 to 1914, his work displays an interest in a naturalistic vein of Cubism. Braque and Picasso influenced him, but his work has a more decorative feel and his colors are reminiscent of Delaunay. His most famous work, “The Conquest of Air,” is a scene of himself and his brother in an open-air atmosphere with a balloon in the background. After serving in the First World War, La Fresnaye’s health diminished and he was no longer able to create long-term paintings.
