Henri Le Fauconnier

At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauconnier and colleagues Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay caused a scandal with their Cubist paintings.

[1] In 1901 Henri Le Fauconnier moved from northern France to Paris, where he studied law, then attended painting classes in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens, then in the Academie Julian.

He moved to Brittany in 1907 and painted the rocky landscapes of Ploumanac'h in a proto-Cubist style characterized by chastened tones of brown and greens with thick outlines delimiting the simplified forms.

Louis Vauxcelles, in his review of the 1910 Salon des Indépendants, made a passing and inaccurate reference to Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger, as "ignorant geometers, reducing the human body, the site, to pallid cubes.

[8] In 1912, Le Fauconnier participated in the first exhibition of Cubism in Spain, at Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona, with Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris, Marie Laurencin, and August Agero.

Ploumanac’h , 1908, Bergen, Museum Kranenburgh
L'Abondance (Abundance) , 1910–11, oil on canvas, 191 x 123 cm (75.25 x 48.5 in.), Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
The Salon d'Automne of 1912, held in Paris at the Grand Palais from 1 October to 8 November. Le Fauconnier's monumental Mountaineers Attacked by Bears is exhibited on the right. Other works are shown by Jean Metzinger , Joseph Csaky , František Kupka , Francis Picabia , and Amedeo Modigliani
Paintings by Henri Le Fauconnier, 1910–11, L'Abondance , Haags Gemeentemuseum; Jean Metzinger , 1911, Le goûter (Tea Time) , Philadelphia Museum of Art; Robert Delaunay , 1910–11, La Tour Eiffel . Published in La Veu de Catalunya , 1 February 1912
Henri Le Fauconnier, 1911–12, Le Chasseur ( The Huntsman ), oil on canvas, 203 x 166.5 cm, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag