PIERRE-EUGENE MONTEZIN: NOTABLE SALES

One of the most distinguishable Post-Impressionist painters, Pierre-Eugène Montézin was profoundly influenced by the great masterpieces of the Impressionists, most notably the work of Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. Our London gallery has acquired and sold many notable paintings by Pierre-Eugène Montézin. We are always looking to acquire and buy more artworks by this artist.

 

Passionate about the outdoors and the idyllic French rural countryside, despite having spent much of his life in Paris, Pierre-Eugène Montézin was an avid practitioner of ‘en plein air’ painting.

 

The son of a lace designer, Pierre-Eugène Montézin was apprenticed to a decorative atelier at a young age to learn the art of executing murals. In 1903 he met the French Impressionist painter Ernest Quost who encouraged Montézin to concentrate on drawing and painting en plein air and to study the theories of Impressionism.

 

Throughout his career, Montézin maintained an Impressionist style, using loose, broad brushstrokes of pure colour to build up his compositions. Montézin painted figures in many of his landscapes, either working the land or at leisure, providing animation and focus to his landscapes.

 

Montézin first exhibited at at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1903, and was subsequently awarded numerous accolades. In 1932 he was awarded the medal of honor, the first landscape painter given this prestigious award in thirty years, and the following year he was elected the president of the Salon Jury.