Charles camoin
Charles CAMOIN (Marseille 1879-Paris 1965)
"Bouquet of flowers" Oil on canvas, 81 x 54 cm Signed lower left "Charles Camoin"
About the artist
Born in 1879 in Marseille, Charles Camoin belongs to this generation of artists who made the hinge between the XIXth and the XXth centuries. Very close to Matisse, Manguin and Marquet, met during his visit to Gustave Moreau's studio at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he participated with them in the "Cage aux fauves" at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. From then on, he was affiliated in fauvism, he quickly enjoyed success, exhibiting regularly in Parisian and European salons. Even if Camoin promotes expression through color in her work, she always remains attached to the transcription of the motif and its light variations. He was therefore undoubtedly "the most impressionist of wild animals", as Bernard Dorival wrote. After the war, Camoin divided his life between his studio in Montmartre and that of Saint-Tropez where he settled in 1921, asserting more and more his taste for sensual, voluptuous and spontaneous painting, imprinted with the presence of Renoir to whom he visited in 1918.