Charles Camoin

Flowers in a Vase - Fauvist Still Life Oil Painting by Charles Camoin

1947

Charles Camoin was a French Expressionist landscape painter associated with the Fauves. He painted a portrait of Matisse, which is in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Museum in Paris. Born in Marseille, France, on September 23, 1879, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends, including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves for their wild, Expressionist-like use of color. Camoin always remained close to Matisse. Camoin's works have been widely shown in France and are in such major collections as the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in addition to the Centre Georges Pompidou and many of the French regional museums. In 1955, he was awarded the Prix du President de la Republique at the Biennale of Menton. He died in Paris on May 20, 1965.