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Assia Quesnel
30 January 2026
Si le fauvisme ne forme pas un mouvement à proprement parler, doté d’un manifeste ou d’une théorie établie, il n’en constitue pas moins, dès le milieu des années 1900, une avant-garde aux yeux de la critique et du public. Cette identification procède moins de principes partagés…
Extérieur
25 June 2025
Le musée des Arts décoratifs présente sa première grande monographie dédiée à Paul Poiret (1879-1944), figure incontournable de la haute couture parisienne du début du XXe siècle et proche des artistes novateurs de son temps, en particulier des fauves et de Charles Camoin.
Archives Camoin
31 Janaury 2025
Les Archives Camoin sont lauréates de la dotation Catalogage des œuvres du Fonds de soutien ADAGP. Cette dotation permettra de poursuivre le catalogage des Archives Camoin, initié en 2023.
Assisted by a team of researchers, Ms. Grammont-Camoin, the artist’s daughter and rights-holder, set up the Archives Camoin in 2010. A non-profit organisation under the 1901 Law (known as ‘Association loi de 1901’), the Archives Camoin enriches, preserves, classifies, and makes the artist’s archives available. It also…
The main missionof the Archives Camoin is to compile the catalogue raisonné of Charles Camoin’s paintings. A catalogue raisonné…
In accordance with the artist’s rights-holders, the Archives Camoin verifies the authenticity of works attributed to Charles Camoin…
The work of Charles Camoin (1879-1965) is protected by copyright (moral rights and economic rights). As a reminder, copyright is…
Encouraged by his mother after winning the First Prize in Figure Drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, Charles Camoin was admitted into Gustave Moreau’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts…
At the end of his military service in September 1903, Camoin was reunited in Paris with his former friends from the Moreau studio – Matisse, Marquet and Manguin – with whom he developed a colourist style of…
From 1907, Camoin settled in Montmartre, a Parisian bohemian neighbourhood, and forged a relationship with the painter Émilie Charmy. His exploration of plastic expression led him down a less optimistic…
After breaking up with Charmy, Camoin left France at the end of November 1912 with Amélie Matisse. They joined Matisse in Tangier where they all stayed at the hotel Villa de France. The two artists worked together and kept…
Following the declaration of war, Camoin was enlisted in the 115th Infantry Regiment on the 2nd of August 1914. He was first sent as a stretcher bearer to the Vosges front before being appointed as the major’s cycle courier…
After the war, Camoin went through tough times. In 1920, he married Charlotte Prost (also known as Lola) who came from Provence, like him, and shared his life between Montmartre and Saint-Tropez. He got closer…
In the 1950s, Camoin was one of the last living Fauve artists. Marquet had died in 1947, Manguin in 1949, Matisse in 1954… Camoin decided at the time to keep a diary to put his aesthetic thoughts in writing…
Born in 1879 in Marseille, Charles Camoin belonged to a generation of artists who started painting at the turn of the 20th century. He was very close to Matisse, Marquet and Manguin, whom he had met while studying…
1879 Born in Marseille on the 23rd of September, son of Joseph Camoin (1846-1885), head of a painting and decoration business, and Marie née Legros (1848-1930), painter and pastellist. He was the youngest…
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