the fourteenth of july roger de la fresnayeThe Fourteenth of July offers an emblematic example of La Fresnaye's idiosyncratic Cubist experimentation and is indicative of a decisive transition in the artist's career. His sensitivity to color is resolutely concrete in the present work, where the construction is based on a series of geometric shapes colored in primary colors, black or white. Proudly displaying the colors of the tricolor flag in the upper left hand corner, La Fresnaye gives this