PIERRE EUGENE MONTEZIN (FRENCH 1874-1946)
Landscape with wheatsheaves
signed P Montezin in brown ink (lower left)
watercolour and gouache, over pencil on paper laid down on board
16.5 x 37.2 cm (6 1/2 x 14 5/8 in)

Provenance:
Sale: Doyle, New York, 24 May 2005, lot 95 Private collection, Naples, Florida Trained as a decorative mural painter, Montézin was strongly influenced by the Impressionists, and enjoyed a long and successful career as a landscape and still life painter, equally adept in oils, pastels and gouache. Admitted to the Legion of Honour in 1923, he served on the jury of the Salon des Artistes Français in 1932. In the same year a large retrospective exhibition of his work, numbering over two hundred works, was held in Paris. In 1940 Montézin was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, taking the place of Edouard Vuillard, who had died. Montézin's work is in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris and the Städtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim.