Charles Camoin, enjoyed a successful career that encompassed the end of the nineteenth century and ventured well into the twentieth. Under the tutelage of Gustave Moreau, he worked in a variety of genres, and was considered a practitioner of both the Postimpressionist and the Fauvist styles. It was through Gustave Moreau's studio, that he formed friendships with Cezanne and Matisse, with whom he maintained close correspondence.


With a strong network of influential friends, and a quickly blossoming future, Camoin exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Artistes Independants in 1903, and by 1904 had his first solo exhibition in Paris at the Galerie Berthe Weill. In 1905 Camoin was part of the "cage aux fauves" at t...