"Gueridon aux Trois Roses" (Side Table with Three Roses) is an oil on canvas still life by Rene Genis depicting three roses in a blue vessel placed on a round gueridon table beside a single pear. The composition is structured through broad areas of color and simplified forms, combining floral and domestic elements within an interior setting. Signed lower left and titled on verso. Presented in original giltwood frame with black lacquered border.
Rene Genis (1922–2004) was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator associated with the Parisian Neo Figurative School and regarded as an important post-war interpreter of the still life tradition. Born in Hue (present-day Vietnam), he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and later at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris under Albert Marquet and Marcel Gromaire. Closely associated with a generation of figurative painters that included Guy Bardone, Andre Brasilier, Bernard Cathelin, and Paul Guiramand, Genis developed a restrained pictorial language shaped by the legacy of French Poetic Realism.
