Exhibition GEN PAUL, Intime at the Galerie Roussard.

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Since its founding in 1945, the gallery Roussard is closely linked to the painter Gen Paul who has always been shown since. Since the 1980s, the gallery has organized numerous solo exhibitions in France and abroad. We became the specialist of Gen Paul, possesses the largest archive on the painter , and in 2006 we published his biography, a reference for all the amateurs of the painter . Until June 15, 2014you will enter into the intimacy of the painter . With personal objects will be exhibited self-portraits in oil from the period 1925-1927, works representing his son, his house, musicians and Figures important to him. You will also see casts that were used in the creation of the medal produced for the Monnaie de Paris We will be happy to welcome you every day from 11am to 19h. GEN PAUL, Intime Exhibition from May15th to June 15th, 2014. Galerie Roussard 13, rue du Mont Cenis 75018 Paris   VERSION FRANÇAISE > ICI < For any informations or price : EMAIL or TELEPHONE 0033.1.46.06.30.46

Selfportrait Oil on canvas 35x24cm, c1925 N° 1 Price on request	Le Conscrit Oil on canvas 81x65cm, 1925 N° 2 Price on request	Le violoniste Nocetti Oil on canvas 92x65cm, c1927 N° 3 Price on request
L’enfant prodige Oil on canvas 55x33cm, c1928 N° 4 Price on request	Selfportrait Oil on canvas 46x38cm, 1927 N° 5 Price on request	" L'homme de lettre " Alphonse Séché Oil on canvas 81x60cm, c1928 N° 6 Price on request
L’Accordéoniste Gouache painting on paper 65x50cm, 1927 N° 7 Price on request	Selfportrait à la cigarette Drawing 28x20cm, c1970 N° 8-334 Price on request	Le fils de l’artiste à la trompette Drawing 40x30cm, 1962 N° 9-856 Price on request
Le Cheval Drawing 37x31cm, c1970 N° 10-885 Price on request	Montmartre, La Place du Tertre Oil on canvas 73x92cm, 1929 N° 11 Price on request	Le Violoncelliste Drawing 40x30cm, c1955 N° 12 Price on request
Le Saxophoniste Felt drawing40x30cm, c1955 N° 13 Price on request	Le Violoniste Oil on canvas 92x60cm, c1955 N° 14 Price on request	La Maison du Peintre Drawing 27x38cm, c1955 N° 15 Price on request
Les quais et la Tour Eiffel Gouache painting on paper 50x65cm, 1936 N° 16 Price on request	Promenade Avenue Foch Gouache painting on paper 50x65cm, c1935 N° 17 Price on request	Le Saut d’obstacle Gouache painting on paper 50x65cm, 1937 N° 18 Price on request
Le Nu dans l’Atelier Drawing 50x65cm, c1970 N° 19 Price on request	Portrait de Jeune Fille Oil 41x27cm, c1935 N° 20 Price on request	Bouquet Drawing , 26 Juillet 1961 N° 21 Price on request
Bouquet Watercolor 65x50cm, c1970 N° 22 Price on request	Scène Champêtre Gouache painting on paper 50x65cm, c1927 N° 23 Price on request	Le Guitariste Drawing , c1965 N° 24-0385 Price on request
Le Violoniste Drawing, c1965 (Réf. N° 25-0392 Price on request	Le Picador Drawing 50x65 cm, c1965 N° 26-0847 Price on request	Le Duo Drawing, c1965 N° 27-0872 Price on request
Le Moulin Rouge Drawing c1965 (Réf. N° 28- 0851 Price on request	Le Divin Christ à Perpignan Drawing, 8 août 1968 N° 29-0861 Price on request	Le Guitariste Roger Drawing, c1965 N° 30-0528 Price on request
Paris, La Porte Saint-Denis Gouache painting on paper 50x65 cm, c1965 N° 31-0840 Price on request	Le Théâtre Gouache painting on paper 50x65cm, c1927 N° 32 Price on request	Alain Gérard de l'ORTF en Toréador Oil on panel 55x33cm, c1960 N° 33 Price on request
La Calèche Gouache painting on paper 50x65 cm, c1945 N° 34 Price on request	L’Accordéoniste Drawing 38x27cm, c1955 N° 35 Price on request	Le Paddock Drawing 50x65 cm, c1965 N° 36 Price on request
Antoine Drawing, c1965 N° 37-0187 Price on request	Le Guitariste Drawing, c1965 N° 38-0203 Price on request	Le Violoniste Drawing, c1965 N° 39-0396 Price on request
Paris, Notre-Dame et la Seine Drawing 50x65 cm, c1965 N° 40-0817 Price on request	Montmartre, Rue de la Barre Drawing 50x65 cm, c1965 (Réf. N° 41-0820 Price on request	Le Quatuor Drawing 50x65 cm, c1965 N° 42-0837 Price on request
Le Flûtiste Drawing, c1965 N° 43-0865 Price on request	Le Flûtiste Drawing, c1965 N° 44-0880 Price on request	L'Accordéoniste Drawing, c1965 (Réf. N° 45-0882 Price on request
Le fils de Gen Paul Oil on panel 55x33 cm, 1964 N° 46 Price on request	Le Clown au Tambour Drawing , c1965 N° 47-0884 Price on request	" La Chatte dans la Chambre Jaune " Drawing , 1954 N° 48 Price on request
Le Moulin-Rouge Gouache painting on paper 21x27cm N° 49 Price on request	Nanterre Sur Seine Watercolor 1923 - 30x44cm N° 50 Price on request	La Pianiste Drawing 21x30cm N° 54 Price on request
Le Clown Jongleur Drawing 29x21cm N° 51 Price on request	Le Clown Violoniste Drawing 41x28cm N° 52 Price on request	Le Cavalier et le lad Drawing 38x28cm N° 53 Price on request
Paris, Place de la Madeleine Gouache painting on paper 50x65cm, Date circa 1930 N° 57 Price on request	La Calèche Drawing 20x28cm N° 55 Price on request	Le Violoncelliste Drawing 28x21cm N° 56 Price on request

 

 

Gen Paul’s talent as an artist gained recognition very early on. The renowned Paris art dealer Henri Bing devoted an exhibition to him in 1928 and in his introduction to the show compared him to contemporaries Rouault and Soutine. This was a very perspicacious decision indeed, for Gen Paul ranks today as one of the greatest French expressionist painters. Expressionism was much more than a trend in art; it was a way of thinking, the mark of an age and the very embodiment of the early 20th century. It also challenged conventions and existing ways of seeing, and sought to roll back the frontiers of painting as a means of expression. Artists no longer looked to depict objects as they were but as they perceived them to be; painting became insightful and pictorial representation distorted. Wasn’t Soutine’s reputation founded on his pastry cook’s deliberately oversized left ear ? By the same token, in Gen Paul’s painting, the characters’ hands are out of proportion, giant-sized and elongated, which underlies their beauty. Expressionism was also influenced by a bleak period in world history: the onset of the First World War, and war per se. And yet, this was seldom depicted in the work of expressionist painters, with the exception of Otto Dix. Gen Paul produced only a small number of prints of WWI soldiers, even though he had experienced the true horrors of warfare, during which, it should be pointed out, he lost his right leg. The First World War, although seldom depicted by either Gen Paul or by expressionist painters in general, had a marked impact on his paintings and manner of painting. Gen Paul would most likely not have devoted himself completely to painting, had he not been wounded in the Great War, and his paintings would perhaps not have been so full of life had he not almost lost his own. He developed an expressionism of movement based on continuous research and pure emotion. Highly prolific and mastering the full range of pictorial techniques, he threw himself into painting with such abandon that it nearly killed him in 1930. Gen Paul took a great interest in current affairs and events, discussing all manner of topics in his famed “ Gen Paul Masses’ ”, including the latest gossip from the Butte Montmartre, politics, sport, art and literature. He knew and frequented all the great painters and writers of his time. This made a lasting impression on him as well as on his oeuvre, despite, paradoxically, preferring to work in isolation. He was a free spirit who painted intuitively and who also used painting as a form of release. He developed his own gestural style, devised pictorial techniques and invented his own form of calligraphy. His pioneering painting recalls both Willem de Kooning, one of the leaders of the abstract expressionist movement, and action painting, in its spontaneity and philosophy of life. Gen Paul has taken up his rightful place in the history of French expressionist painting, albeit almost reluctantly. He never tendered a philosophical stance on his painting, and never sought to be part of a movement; nor did he mix with other expressionist painters. He was, however, a man of his times who skilfully captured them, creating a new form of painting in the process, which in turn has taken up its rightful place in the history of art, alongside Soutine and Rouault, just as Henri Bing had anticipated back in 1928!

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