Georges Charles Robin

French, (1903–2002)

Les Gorges du Loup et Village de Tourette

Oil on Canvas

46 x 55 cms / 18" x 21¾"

Provenance

Private Collection, France.

Gladwell & Patterson, London; acquired from the above in 2022.

Exhibited

Exibited at the Paris Salon, after 1948.

La Mauldre, près de Mareil

Painted in 1962

Oil on Board

39 x 46 cms / 15½" x 18"

Provenance

Omell Galleries, London.

Private Collection, UK.

Gladwell & Patterson, London; acquired from the above in 2019.

Sur le Thouaret, près de Thouars

Oil on Canvas

46 x 54 cms / 18" x 21½"

Georges Charles Robin

French, (1903–2002)

Provenance

Priavte Collection, UK.

Gladwell & Patterson, London; acquired from the above.

Pierre-Eugène Montézin

French, (1874–1946)

The last great Post-Impressionist painter, Pierre Eugène Montézin would be instrumental in maintaining the vitality of landscape painting well into the twentieth century. With a career spanning over fifty years, Montézin championed Impressionism into the modern era; his legacy ensuring its survival for generations to come. Building upon unimpeachable en plein air technique, his use of pure colours and richly textured brushwork make his works immediately recognisable: their bright light and complex atmospheric effects are still startlingly vibrant to the viewer. Yet Montézin understood that art needed more than technical brilliance, noting to the critic Louis Vauxelles that ‘the subjects of the Landscape painter are less in from of the artist’s eyes than they are in his heart’. Amongst a litany of great achievements, his 1923 receipt of the Légion d’Honneur for a landscape painting shown at the salon is widely regarded as a seminal moment for not only twentieth century Impressionism, but en plein air painting as a whole. The first award of this magnitude for a landscape for three decades, it prompted an explosive critical reaction that forever cemented Montézin’s reputation. By the time that he passed away while painting outdoors (the same fate that befell Cézanne) Montézin had been made both President of the Académie des Beaux Arts and head of the Salon Jury, a testament to the universal esteem in which he was held.

Barques près des Arbres

Oil on Canvas

66 x 54 cms, 26" x 21½"

Provenance

Private Collection, France. Gladwell & Patterson; acquired in 2018.