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René Genis

René Genis (1922 - 2004) was active/lived in France.  Rene Genis is known for Fauvist landscape, marine and still -ife painting, ink drawing, cartoons.

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.

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Facts about René Genis

   René Genis  Born:  1922 - Hue, Vietnam
Died:   2004 - Paris, France
Known for:  Fauvist landscape, marine and still -ife painting, ink drawing, cartoons
Name variants:  Rene Genis

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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. No matter if the theme is Oriental scenery or French countryside, he always keeps a very poetry serenely ambience. With other artists like Guy Bardone, André Brasilier, Bernard Cathelin, and Paul Guiramand, Genis is also one of the important members of the Parisian Neo-Figurative School.

His work has been collected by Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, National Library of Paris, Fine Arts Museum of Lyon, Yamagata Museum of Art etc. René Genis was influenced by the group of poetic realists with Christian Caillard, Jules Cavaillès, Raymond Legueult, Roger Limouse, Roland Oudot, André Planson, etc.

The Swiss painter Andry acknowledges being influenced by him.

René Genis died in Paris on February 25, 2004.
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Submitted 2022 by: Jacob Frank




Biography from Leonard Davenport Fine Arts / LSDArt

Rene Genis was born in Hue, Vietnam.  His family moved to their native Bordeaux, France in 1931.  He is known for his landscapes and still lifes, his fauvist use of color, and strong compositions.  One of his paintings has an old label from Gallerie Carpenier in Paris and is stamped from Wally Findlay Gallery in New York where it was apparently purchased in 1992.

Recent Exhibitions: 2003 - David Findlay Galleries, New York 2002 - Galerie 26, Paris 2001 - Retrospective au Presbytere Saint-Jacques, Bergerac 2000 - Galerie Montgautier, Poitiers 1999 - Galerie 26, Paris 1998 - Galerie La Pleiade, Grenoble 1998 - Galerie du Chene, Lausanne 1995 - Galerie 26, Paris 1993 - Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne 1992 - David Findlay Galleries, New York 1990 - Galerie La Pleiade, Grenoble

Catalogs and Literature: 'Rene Genis' text de Jean-Charles Gauthier - Retrospective, Ville de Bergerac 'Rene Genis', text by Lydia Harambourg - Editions Galerie 26, Paris France Rene Genis - Art Vision a Paris', Kyoto Shoin, Japan 'Les Natures Mortes de Genis', text by J.M. Nectoux - Editions Ides et Calendes, Neuchatel, Switzerland 'Genis' Monograph, text by Jean Bouret - Editions Ides et Calendes, Neuchatel, Switzerland


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