About the artist:

Henri Renard: Born in Paris, 1920. His talent manifested itself while still in elementary school. It was already then and there that he felt his vocation was to become an artist. After elaborate art schooling, he moved into the circle of the later Montmartre impressionists and stayed with them ever since. He developed a style of his own over the years which is very forceful and met with a wide reception in the art world. His style is very identifiable, his colors and composition sets him apart from other scene painters of the Paris school. He illustrated contemporary Paris life from the 1940s on when many other artists of his generation painted scenes of horse and buggies decades after they were replaced by automobiles. It seems he was exhibited is several galleries in the United States.