MONTEZIN Pierre Eugène Painting 20th century Post-Impressionist painting Varnished gouache signed

MONTEZIN Pierre-Eugène (1874/1946)
Haymaking by the river around 1940 / 1946.
Varnished gouache signed lower left.
50x65 cm
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 clever pastiche of Impressionism, thanks to which he took his revenge at the Salon des Artistes Français by obtaining many awards. His landscapes lightly removed by small touches, with the wet greens of a postcard Normandy, seduce with their rural subjects with virtuoso scenography (“History at the edge of the Loing”, “La Seine à 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.
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