\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 French painter. \par
Born to a bourgeois family, he had to overcome his fatherÆs resistance in order to devote himself to p
ainting. He studied at the AcadΘmie CarriΦre where he met Matisse and Vlaminck. Initially working in the style of the Fauves, on the eve of the First World War the influence of the French primitives and African sculpture led him to move in a new directio
n, adopting a dry and monumental archaism. In the postwar years, his rejection of Dadaism and Surrealism caused him to shift to a realistic style, mediated by ancient Roman art, Caravaggio and Courbet, yet conducting research that in some ways parallels
that of the Italian painters of the Novecento movement.
