The Tournament - Henri SENE (1889-1961)

SENÉ Henry or Henri Charles E.

Born June 10, 1889 in Pont-Rémy (Somme). Died on April 10, 1961 in Paris. Twentieth century. French.
Painter of history, religious subjects, genre scenes, portraits, animals, animated landscapes, landscapes, wall compositions, engraver.

He was a student of the School of Arts and Crafts of Châlons-sur-Marne, then, from 1906, Fernand Cormon at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. He made many trips to Morocco, Congo, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, where he was sent as head of the painting workshop of the School of Fine Arts in La Paz. He 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 1959. n received the Grand Prize at the International Festival of Architecture and Monumental Art at the 1956 Salon. He was promoted to Legion of Honor Officer in 1958. His stays abroad inspired him to create landscapes and genre scenes. exotic, like the Caravan, the Camels or Flock of Llamas, the head of a Bolivian Indian, etc. He painted decorative frescoes, but also portraits, loving to represent horses in movement, in the effort, a little like a Géricault.

MUSEUMS: AMIENS (Musà © e de Picardie): Ecce Homo - Christ insulted - Death of Kingand in Roncesvalles - The water point - The cara¬vane - DUON (Fine Arts Museum): Indians and llamas - HONFLEUR: The Seafarers' Church - Bassin d'Honneur - MONTEVIDEO: Bolivian Indian Head - Herd of Llamas, Lake Titicaca - PARIS (France Overseas Museum): Fantasia.