Henri Séné, Brazzaville, the Congo River in 1929. Africa
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Henri Séné (1889 - 1961)
Landscape at Brazzaville, the banks of the Congo River.
Oil on canvas, located and dated 1929
Very good condition.
Frame size: 86 x 73 cm
Canvas size: 73 x 60 cm
Henri Séné, born in 1889 in Picardy, died in 1961.
He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cormon and began exhibiting at antique shops in
Provins. He started with historical or religious themes: (Roland at Roncevaux and The Insulted Christ, Amiens Museum).
It was the landscape that attracted him, the Picard light, the sun
sculpting the forms of oxen and draft horses, at a time when naturalism was dying out.
A great traveler, Séné spent extended periods in North Africa;
his Orientalist period is significant in his work.
He was sent to Bolivia by France as head of the workshop at the School of Fine Arts in La Paz.
Henri Séné (1889 - 1961)
Landscape at Brazzaville, the banks of the Congo River.
Oil on canvas, located and dated 1929
Very good condition.
Frame size: 86 x 73 cm
Canvas size: 73 x 60 cm
Henri Séné, born in 1889 in Picardy, died in 1961.
He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cormon and began exhibiting at antique shops in
Provins. He started with historical or religious themes: (Roland at Roncevaux and The Insulted Christ, Amiens Museum).
It was the landscape that attracted him, the Picard light, the sun
sculpting the forms of oxen and draft horses, at a time when naturalism was dying out.
A great traveler, Séné spent extended periods in North Africa;
his Orientalist period is significant in his work.
He was sent to Bolivia by France as head of the workshop at the School of Fine Arts in La Paz.