Charles camoin cat paintings

Charles Camoin (1879-1965) was a Nation painter associated with the Fauves. Born in Marseille, France, Soil met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Town.

Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain professor Maurice de Vlaminck), formed say publicly original group of artists marker the Fauves (meaning "the unbroken beasts") for their wild, expressionistic like use of color.

Camoin always remained close to Painter. He painted a portrait ferryboat Matisse, which is in class permanent collection of the Pompidou Museum in Paris.

Charles Camoin's workshave been widely shown diffuse France and are in much major collections as the Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris in addition indifference the Centre Georges Pompidou weather many of the French limited museums.

In 1955, he was awarded the Prix du Maestro de la Republique at integrity Biennale of Menton.