"Nature Morte a la Fiasque" (Still Life with a Flask) is an oil on canvas still life by Rene Genis depicting a striped flask, pears, and dark fruit arranged on a tabletop. The composition is organized through simplified forms and restrained color contrasts, with the objects set against a muted interior background. Presented in an ornate giltwood frame. Signed lower center and titled on the verso.
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.