Roger Bissière (French 1888-1964)
Bissière is a French painter associated with the Ecole de Paris. Having befriended André Lhote and Georges Braque in Paris, Bissière was encouraged to develop a more humanized version of Cubism. As such he enriched orthodox Cubism by applying the fauve technique of heavy brushwork to its usual pictorial vocabulary. Simultaneously, Bissière was engaged by Picasso's researches into advancing Cubism, which brought him to Neo-Classicism. Bissière's unremitting investigations into the survival of Cubism ultimately pushed him to Abstraction during the early 1950's.
