Today, let’s escape for one minute on video with Charles Camoin, around Mediterranean Landscape and The Bay of Ajaccio with Eucalyptus. These works are on display at the gallery until April 30, as part of the exhibition “GREEN Spring palettes”.
Charles Camoin’s The Bay of Ajaccio with Eucalyptus (La baie d’Ajaccio à l’eucalyptus) and Mediterranean Landscape (Le Paysage Méditerranean) enchant our gaze and a freshness of life overcomes us.
“Born in a pot of color” in Marseille and a major player in the Fauve movement, Charles Camoin has proven to be a true ambassador of the Mediterranean shores.
Charles CAMOIN (1879-1965)
Paysage méditerranéen
1904
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
50 x 61 cm
Corsica, where he stayed in January-February 1906 with his partner, Emilie Charmy, was a real source of inspiration and a pretext to exalt color. Green invades the composition, contrasting with blue, red, and purple. The ensemble is illuminated thanks to the nuances of yellow and Veronese Green so vaunted by Cézanne.
The Bay of Ajaccio with Eucalyptus embodies Camoin’s fauve period. It was exhibited in 1907 in the famous avant-garde gallery of the merchant Henri Kahnweiler.
Charles CAMOIN (1879-1965)
La baie d’Ajaccio à l’Eucalyptus
1906
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
65 x 81 cm
Exhibition from March 14 to April 20, 2022
Works by
Jean ARP
Charles CAMOIN
Henri-Edmond CROSS
Sonia DELAUNAY
Raoul DUFY
Francis GRUBER
František KUPKA
André MARCHAND
Louis MARCOUSSIS
Albert MARQUET
Joan MIRÓ
Ker-Xavier ROUSSEL
Paul SIGNAC
Sam SZAFRAN
Maurice UTRILLO
Geer van VELDE
Édouard VUILLARD.
