Charles Camoin moved to Paris in 1896 and became the student of Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His fellow students were Rouault, Matisse and Marquet.
In 1902, he traveled to southern France and met Paul Cézanne, with whom he carried on a regular correspondence. In 1905, he participated in the controversial Salon des Indépendants with his fellow Fauve artists, Matisse and Derain. From 1904, onwards he traveled widely, particularly around the Mediterranean. In 1912, he traveled through Morocco with Matisse and Marquet.
His nudes and landscapes were influenced less by the Fauves than by Renoir, whom he met during World War I on a leave from the army in 1918, when he visited the artist in Cagnes. This meeting had immediate repercussions on his style, which mellowed. Living between the south of France and Paris, the sales of his Mediterranean landscapes, nudes, still lives and interiors brought him wealth. In 1958, a retrospective of his work was given at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery.
Premier prix de la Biennale de Menton, 1955
Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, 1955
Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, 1959
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France, 1903, 1906, 1907
Salon d'Automne, Paris, France, 1904, 1905, 1906
Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, France, 1904
Armory Show, New York, New York, 1913
Retrospective, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France, 1931
Retrospective, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, 1952
Retrospective Camoin, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris,France, June-July 1958
Retrospective, Chicago Art Institute, Illinois, 1960
New York, 1961
Retrospective, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, 1966
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Le Havre, France
Musée de Louvre-Réserves, Paris, France
Menton, France
Musée Chéret, Nice, France
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France
Musée de l'Annonciade, Saint Tropez, France
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Toulon, France
Musée de Grenoble, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Alger, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Boulogne-sur-mer, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Draguignan, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France
Musée de la Castre, Cannes, France
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Musée Fragonard, Grasse, France
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Musée Municipal d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
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