Can in an Orphist style until his encounter with Duchamp led him toward Dada.  
He retired to Provence in 1925, where he worked on collages of cellophane sheets which he called "transparencies."  He was a founding member of the Section d'Or (door), and painted works like Catch as Catch Can in an Orphist style until his encounter with Duchamp led him toward Dada.  FTP, identify this French artist, who founded the journal 391 in 1918, best known for "Mechanothropomorphic" fantasies like Universal Prostitution which exemplified his style of mechano-dada art.
He retired to Provence in 1925, where he worked on collages of cellophane sheets which he called "transparencies."  
Francis Picabia