Painting Figures At Table By Francis Lassus Saint Genies

Superb oil painting on canvas representing 3 people seated at the table. Work of Baron Francis Lassus Saint Genies (1925-2018), painter, lithographer, engraver and illustrator, born in Val André in Brittany in 1925. He trained at the Julian Academy like Alain Bonnefois, he made woman one of his favorite subjects but he transforms her, exalts her in a fantastic way, using ancient references and extraordinary animals to endow his women with dreamlike attributes, creating bird women, stone women, cat women etc ... He is died in Versailles in October 2018. He was the great-grandson of the composer Charles Gounod. As for this painting, it is the work of his beginnings before he found his style, it represents 3 characters at the table, a man standing holding a knife and 2 women seated with a glass in their hand for one of them. 'they. The tones are soft, the colors very bright. quality work in very good condition, rare in the work of the artist, signed lower left.