Gen Paul

Born and buried in Montmartre, Eugène Paul — Gen Paul — lost a leg at Verdun and painted with the violence of a man in a hurry ever after: expressionist canvases of butchers, musicians, and the streets of the Butte. He was Céline's neighbor and the closest of the painter friends, sketching and painting the writer across decades of quarrels and reconciliations — and turning up, transposed, in the delirious late novels of the Montmartre years.