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Henry Charles Séné (1889-1961) Oil on canvas "Market Scene"
Dimensions without frame Height 38.5 cm - Length 46 cm
Dimensions with frame Height 51 cm - Length 59 cm
Séné studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Châlons-sur-Marne then, from 1906, with Fernand Cormon at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
Exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, where he received an honorable mention in 1913, a silver medal in 1922, the Rosa Bonheur Prize in 1924, a gold medal in 1932 and a medal of honor in 1958.
Recognized as an orientalist and animal painter, Séné favors the real world, relying on the "modern vision" imposed by the Impressionists. Like them, he frees himself from ancestral pictorial canons to invent a new pictorial technique responding to the desire to privilege in painting the instantaneous "impression" on the construction of the spirit.
Museums:
Amiens (Music of Picardy): Ecce Homo; Christ Insulted; Death of Roland in Roncesvalles; Water Point; caravan
Dijon (MBA): Indians and Llamas
Honfleur: The Sailors' Church; Honfleur Basin
Montevideo: Head of Bolivian Indian; Herd of Llamas, Lake Titicaca
Paris (Mus. des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie): Fantasia
Ref: CWECTC02GL