French Cubist painter Roger de la Fresnaye was born in Le Mans. He studied at the Academy Julian in Paris and his paintings were strongly influenced by the work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. He was a member of the Puteaux Group, an offshoot of Cubism, but his artist career was halted firstly by the First World War and then by poor health. He died in Grasse, in the South of France at only 40 years old.
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