MONTEZIN The Seine at Veneux les Sablons Oil on canvas signed Certificate of authenticity

MONTEZIN Pierre-Eugène (1874/1946)

“The Seine at Veneux les Sablons”, circa 1930/1935.

Oil on canvas signed lower left.

60x72,5 cm

Certificate of authenticity.

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 entry to the Salon for ten years in a row, from 1893 to 1903. After the war, he found his style, a skillful pastiche of Impressionism, thanks to which he took his revenge at the Salon des Artistes Français by winning numerous awards. His landscapes, nimbly carried off with small touches, with the wet greens of a postcard Normandy, seduce with their rural subjects and virtuoso scenography ("History on the Banks of the Loing", "The Seine at Bougival", "Haymaking in Normandy", National Museum of Modern Art in Paris). Montezin was elected to the Institut in 1941. Like Cézanne, he died while painting outdoors. violondingres.fr