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Gen Paul"Man with White Chapeau"Circa 1950
Circa 1950
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Description: Very expressive oil on heavy paper of a man with a large mustache and wearing a white chapeau by Gen Paul. Signed middle right. New silver leaf frame with dark mat and Museum glass. Overall size framed is 25 by 20 inches. Provenance: Private collector, Argentina.
Eugene Paul, known as Gen Paul, was born in 1895 and raised in the bohemian atmosphere of Montmartre. In his life he came to know a great many of the artists, from the anonymous to the world famous, who established themselves in the neighborhood. A self-taught artist, Gen Paul began expressing himself in drawings and paintings as a child, his earliest works show a remarkable talent. He was apprenticed to a wallpaper hanger. until his life was interrupted by war. He was wounded twice in World War One, the second time he lost one of his legs. During his recovery he turned to painting, which became his passion and his livelihood for almost 60 years. Gen Paul exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants beginning in 1920. In 1928 Gen Paul exhibited fifty paintings at Galerie Bing with Picasso, Rouault, and Soutine. He participated in collective exhibitions in London and Anvers. In 1937 he painted a large fresco for the Pavillon de Vins de France at l’Exposition Internationale de Paris. A restrospective was held at Galerie Drouant-David in 1952 and his works were shown several times at Galerie Ferrero in Geneva, Switzerland. From the late teens until about 1930 Gen Paul produced a large number of exceptionally strong, vibrant expressionist paintings. His work from this period is particularly interesting when compared to that of Chaim Soutine. While their techniques are clearly similar, Soutine’s paintings seem dark, pessimistic, and distorted (by no means a flaw), while Gen Paul’s are filled with a vital, positive energy and emotionalism. The work of Willem de Kooning also has many similarities to that of Gen Paul, though Gen Paul came 30 years before de Kooning and the other “action painters” of the 1950’s. Gen Paul began the 1930s with a serious illness, as he recovered his paintings changed, he became more interested expressing rhythm in is work and began employing calligraphic forms in his work. Gen Paul worked without promoters, agents, or regular gallery representation. He painted into the 1960’s. When he died there were no paintings left in his estate, everything had already been sold. Perhaps because of his disdain for the art establishment, Gen Paul’s work has never approached the price levels of many of his famous peers. Many of Gen Paul’s greatest works from the 1920s have remained in private collections. A Catalog Raisonné of Gen Paul’s paintings which were completed before 1930 is in preparation. Retrospective exhibitions of Gen Paul’s work were held at the Musée de Montmartre in 1986, for the hundred-year anniversary of his birth in 1995 at Museum Les Cordeliers, and in 1998 in Zurich, Switzerland. He is represented in museums in Berne, and Geneva, Switzerland, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.
Condition: EXCELLENT
Height: 12 in.
Depth: 0.25 in.
Width/Length: 8 in.
Number of items: 1
Periods: 1920
- Creator:Gen Paul (1895-1975, French)
- Creation Year:Circa 1950
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:Good condition; newly framed and matted.
- Gallery Location:Southampton, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1411459083
Gen Paul
Gen Paul was born as Eugène Paul in a house in Montmartre on the Rue Lepic painted by Van Gogh, he began drawing and painting as a child. His father died when he was only 10 years old and Paul was trained to work in decorative furnishings. He served in the French army during World War I and was wounded twice, losing one of his legs.
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