GEN PAUL 20th century Expressionist painting Vase of Flowers oil on canvas signed certificate of authenticity

GEN PAUL ( 1895 / 1975 )

Vase of Flowers circa 1923.

Oil on canvas signed lower right.

21,65 x 18,11 in

Certificate of authenticity.

GEN PAUL (Eugène Paul), 1895 / 1975 (French). Painter, designer, engraver, lithographer. Painter from a very young age, self-taught, his first works seem to reflect numerous crossed 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 engraved cityscapes are considered much more “realistic” in comparison to his painting. From 1920 he exhibited 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 appear on the one hand cheerful and full of optimism, nourished by a passion for life and an interest in the simplicity of everyday life, and on the other become darker, with a paste and thick lines, however remaining constructed with carefully chosen colors, keeping a powerful rhythm and movement. They are characterized by the movement created by the brush gesture, the audacity of the compositions imbued with forced views, diagonals, zigzags, juxtaposing abstract colored patterns with realistic parts. 

Museums: Granville, Honfleur, Menton, Paris, Dunkirk, Warrington, Bern, Geneva. Exhibition: Marseille, Menton, Zurich, New York, Brussels.