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Charles CAMOIN (1879-1965)

Estimate10 000 - 12 000
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Charles CAMOIN (1879-1965)
Bouquet de fleurs dans un pichet, 1941
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
Oil on panel, signed lower left
46 x 37,5 cm - 18 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.
Madame Anne-Marie Grammont-Camoin has confirmed the authenticity of this work which will be included in the catalogue raisonné
Charles Camoin that the Archives Camoin are currently preparing. A certificate will be issued at the buyer's expense.
PROVENANCE Sale, Sotheby's Arcade Auctions, New York, 12 June 1991, lot 27
Private collection, France (acquired at auction in Cannes after 1991)
Private collection, France (by descent)
EXHIBITIONS Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Richesse et lumière de la nature, July-July 1962, n°7
Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Femmes et fleurs, June-September 1964, n°64 "Camoin's art appears today as a happy balance between the refinements and deformations proper to the modern school and an inspiration strongly linked to nature. This last fact undoubtedly explains the independence that the painter was able to maintain. Certainly, there are comparisons to be made with Renoir, Matisse and Bonnard| however, it is undeniable that a highly personal accent animates Camoin's production. His oil paintings are generally characterized by a beautiful freedom of writing and rich harmonies of color.
These become clearer, fresher in the still lifes of a light and spiritual graphics| but everywhere reigns the same deep sense of painting that makes the artist's works documents of a rare fullness of expression." "At the Aktuaryus Gallery," in Revue du Rhin, March 1938, No. 3, p. 51