GEN PAUL The bullfighter Circa 1927/29 Oil on canvas signed Certificate with notice of inclusion in the catalogue raisonné

GEN PAUL (1895/1975)
The Bullfighter, 1927/29.
Oil on canvas signed upper left.
41,5x33,5 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
GEN PAUL (Eugène Paul), 1895/1975 (French).
Painter, draftsman, engraver, lithographer.
Painter from an early age, self-taught, his first works seem to reflect
numerous cross-influences: Spanish baroque, expressionist, cubist, and even those of his friends from Montmartre, including Maurice de Vlaminck, Maurice Utrillo and Frank-Will. He was introduced to engraving by Eugène Delâtre. His etched cityscapes are considered much more "realistic" in comparison to his painting. He exhibited from 1920 at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne. He will also be present at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1937. Gen Paul's works seem partly cheerful and full of optimism, nourished by a passion for life and an interest in the simplicity of daily life, and others become darker, with thick paste and strokes, yet remain constructed with carefully chosen colors, keeping a powerful rhythm and movement. They are characterized by the movement created by the gesture of the brush, the audacity of the compositions imprinted with forced views, diagonals, zigzags, juxtaposing abstract colored patterns with realistic parts.
Museums: Granville, Honfleur, Menton, Paris, Dunkirk, Warrington, Bern, Geneva.
Exhibition: Marseilles, Menton, Zurich, New York, Brussels.
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