Publisher's Synopsis
Monod and de Glehn were cousins and, for a while in the 1890s, shared rooms as students in Paris. This joint exhibition reveals their shared roots in Pre-Raphelitism and Symbolist painting as Wilfrid, Lucien as well as Jane, became master practitioners in what might later be called Impressionism. Their paintings share a love of light and colour combined with a playful, joyful mood as they explored and painted rural landscapes centred around Lucien's home in Cannes. There is the simple adoration of nature and the great outdoors, gardens and arcadian visions. Though world wars would twice intrude upon their lives, it never intrudes upon their art. The world of their paintings may, at times, be mystical (and occasionally mythical), but it is never dangerous and constantly resists the radical modernist movements of the 20th Century.
