MEASUREMENTS: 17"WX21"H FRAMED, GOOD CONDITION, FRAME SHOWS WEAR/"in the style of"Jean René Bazaine was a French painter, designer of stained glass windows and writer. He was the great great grandson of the English Court portraitist Sir George Hayter,Demobilized from the army in 1941, Bazaine in the face of the prejudice over Degenerate Art, organized an avant-garde picture show (Galerie Braun Paris 1941) under the heading Vingt Jeunes Peintres de Tradition Française: Estève, Lapique, Pignon were but a few of the artists involved. 1942 was to be the year of his definitive turn towards the abstract - though he would never refer to himself as an abstract painter (Bernier 1955). In 1949/1950, Bazaine had his first major one man show at the Galerie Maeght, who remained his art dealer thenceforth. From then on it was a steady progress of major exhibitions: Bern, Hanover, Zürich, Oslo, and so on. In 1987, Bazaine had a retrospective exhibition in Galerie Maeght, and in 1988, a retrospective of his drawings in the Musée Matisse. And finally in 1990, the Exposition Bazaine in the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris., which was accompanied by the reissue of his major texts on painting in art theory as Le temps de la peinture (Paris, Aubier 1990),/Private collection, no documentation.