MONTEZIN Pierre-Eugene ( 1874 / 1946 )

Haymaking by the river around 1940 / 1946.

Varnished gouache signed lower left.

50x65cm

Museums: Mannheim, Paris (City Modern Art Museum / Petit Palais Museum)

Pierre-Eugène MONTEZIN (Paris 1874- Moëlan-sur-Mer 1946) He trained with his father, a lace designer. He was refused ten years in a row at the Salon, from 1893 to 1903. After the war, he found his style, a skilful pastiche of Impressionism, thanks to which he took his revenge at the Salon des Artistes français by obtaining many awards. His landscapes lightly taken up by small touches, with the wet greens of a Normandy postcard, seduce by their rural subjects with virtuoso scenography ("History on the banks of the Loing", "The Seine at Bougival", "Fenaison en Normandie », National Museum of Modern Art in Paris). Montezin was elected to the Institute in 1941. Like Cézanne, he died while painting outdoors.