French Cubist Painter, 1885-1941
French painter, printmaker and writer. Taking Cubism as one of his points of departure, he first developed a vocabulary of colour planes only distantly dependent on observed motifs, and by the 1930s he had arrived at a purely self-sufficient language of geometric forms. He remained active as a theoretician until the end of his life,
mk250 Year in 1919. Oil on canvas, about 231.1 x 298.5 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
mk250 Year in 1919. Oil on canvas, about 231.1 x 298.5 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art.