(b Fontainebleau, 19 Aug 1890; d Paris, 22 April 1969). French painter. The first art to impress him was that of Cézanne on show at a memorial exhibition in 1908. That same year he enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris, although he moved almost immediately to the Académie Ranson, where Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier all taught. He first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1912. Like many artists of his generation, he was at first influenced by Cubism, in particular by that mild version of it espoused by Roger de La Fresnaye. Although traces of Cubism remained in his pictures after World War I, like the work of other artists involved in the ‘retour à l’ordre’ it became more conservative. In the Master of the Harvest (1921; Paris, Pompidou), for example, this trend is evident in the solid, geometrical construction of the aggressive figures. Soon afterwards however he settled into a neo-classical style, aligning himself with the French tradition, and produced landscapes and figure paintings in restrained colour such as Young Woman Asleep (1924; priv. col., see Allard, p. 51).