17: Henry Sene – Street Market Scene
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Sizes:
Frame: 55 × 65.5 cm | 21.7 × 25.8 in
Artwork: 45 × 55 cm | 17.7 × 21.7 in
Henry Sene’s Street Market Scene is a still life of daily life, observed with quietness and composition. The drawing stretches along a narrow street full of people — women in traditional dress, children, vendors — each one drawn with precision. The perspective pulls you into the centre of the scene where the rhythm of commerce and community becomes the heartbeat of the city.
Done in graphite on paper, the work shows Sene’s skill and sensitivity to the human gesture. The line and tone creates depth without colour, warmth and atmosphere through simplicity. Each figure, though just outlined, has its own individuality, intimacy and universality.
In Street Market Scene Sene turns an everyday moment into a poetic meditation on movement, connection and culture. The artist’s gaze is empathetic but detached — documentary in spirit, lyrical in execution — and turns an ordinary street into a timelessness record of humanity in motion.
Condition
Good vintage condition with some signs of wear. Framed.
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Henry Séné was a French painter who combined the academic rigor of early 20th century Paris with the curiosity of a traveling artist. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon, Séné learned the classical discipline of figure and landscape painting before traveling to Morocco, the Congo, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. These travels deeply influenced his visual language — he brought back the light, rhythm and cultural diversity of far off lands into his compositions.
Throughout his career Séné exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and received medals and critical acclaim for his composition and color. He was appointed Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1958 and directed the painting studio at the School of Fine Arts in La Paz, Bolivia where he influenced the development of modern Latin American art education. His works — from desert caravans to Andean portraits — are about the romanticism of discovery and the artist’s search for human and natural harmony.
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