b. 1877 in Le Havre, Normandy; d. 1953 in Forcalquier, France. French painter, printmaker and decorative artist. In 1900, with a grant from Le Havre, joined his friend Othon Friesz in Paris and enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Leon Bonnat. At Musee du Louvre he studied the art of Claude Lorrain. Influenced by the impressionist landscapists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Developed a style involving skeletal structures painted with light washes of colour put on by swift brush strokes in a way that became known as stenographic. 1938, completed one of the largest paintings ever done, the fresco "La Fee Electicite" for the Exposition Internationale in Paris. Painted murals for public buildings and created a number of tapestries and ceramic designs.