GENARO LAHUERTA (Valencia, 1905-1985). "Paris Street" 1960. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Measurements: 62 x 45 cm; 81 x 66 cm (frame). He began his studies in the School of Arts and Crafts of Valencia and in 1919 he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, where he met Pedro de Valencia and with whom he became a great friend. His beginnings at the academy led him to become acquainted with the avant-garde movements which, at that time, were already in operation in the rest of Europe, in an attempt to break with "Sorollism". In 1928 he took part in the First Valencian Manifestation of Young Art, and a year later he presented his work at the Sala Parés in Barcelona. He thus became the pioneer of the pictorial renovation in Valencia during the 1920s, reaching its peak in the following decade, when the "Valencian artistic avant-garde of the 1930s" took shape. He began his career with figures reminiscent of the German avant-garde and Italian painting of the "quatrocento", with an interest in the human figure. However, his language changed as a result of the trips he made to Italy, France, Belgium and Holland, returning with a colourist tendency typical of the "Fauves". To this tendency he added the colours he had captured in the Sahara, with violet and yellow tones. He was a great discoverer of nature, capturing for the first time a new Valencian landscape.