By René Genis
Located in Surfside, FL
Rene Genis (1922-2004)
Boat scene
Framed size: 19 1/2 x 15 in. Sight size: 11 x 7 in.2
Label from Left Bank Gallery verso
René Genis (1922 - 2004) lived in France. Rene Genis is known for Fauvist landscape, marine and still-life painting, ink drawing and cartoons. This painting is either a Vietnamese river scene or possible a gondola scene from Venice Italy.
René Genis was born on July 26, 1922 in Hué, Annam, French Indonesia (Vietnam). Genis went with his family to Gironde, Arcachon in Bordeaux, France in 1931. Starting in 1940 he studied for five years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, which won him a four year scholarship to the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris with Albert Marquet and Marcel Gromaire. He exhibited at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture and participated in group shows throughout France. He had his first one-man show at Galerie Charpentier in Paris in 1956. A painter, printmaker and illustrator, Genis taught at the College de Pontoise. From that time, Genis exhibited his paintings at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, and he received the prize in 1960. For forty years, he exhibited regularly at the Salon Comparaisons in the group of Maurice Boitel. He was also a member of the Society of French Painters-Engravers.
Genis is famous with his elegant still-life painting. With an Oriental, Asian sensibility.
Along with artists Guy Bardone, Andre Brasilier, Jean Jansem, Bernard Buffet...
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1960s Post-Impressionist René Genis Paintings