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21 March
A Charles Camoin from the Fauve period
Included in a Paris sale of modern and contemporary paintings on 21 March, this painting by Charles
Camoin from around 1904 (€40,000/60,000, Artprecium) belongs to the artist's Fauve – in other
words, his best – period: the one buyers really warm to... These were the golder years, the ones of his
budding success and recognition. The French state bought two paintings depicting views of the
South from the Marseilles artist in 1904, the year he crisscrossed the South of France and Italy. His
Mediterranean travels inspired numerous landscapes, like the painting here depicting the Vieux Port
de Marseille, one of his favourite themes. It shows the considerable influence of Cézanne, particularly
in its skilfully structured composition, where the painter uses the boats to create a vanishing point
converging on "La Bonne Mère", the basilica of Notre-Dame, on its rocky outcrop overlooking
Marseille. This composition is somewhat reminiscent of another view of the Old Port, dated 1904.
Now in a private collection, this had been sold for £74,400 in London in 2005. Stéphanie Perris-Delmas
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