Lucien Genin was born in 1894, and beginning in 1914, he followed the teaching of the School of Fine Arts in Rouen. His teachers were Alphonse and Albert Guilloux. In the same workshop were Alfred Dunet and Michel Fréchon, two future names of the School of Rouen. Lucien Genin was talented and the most fortunate gifted students were offered admission to a Parisian school. He left Rouen and enrolled at the Arts Déco, rue de l'École-de-Médecine. He attended evening classes in sculpture, architectural composition and mathematics. More than a painter of Paris, Genin was a painter of Parisians. In November 1929, André Warnod wrote of his painting: "Lucien Genin describes Paris with a sometimes hasty ardour but with a pleasant taste ...