Cézanne nicknamed him “the valiant Marseillais”.
Courage was needed.
In particular to go up or down the stairs of Montmartre to the art galleries of rue Laffitte or to the Louvre.
Because Charles Camoin (1879-1965), although a child of the Phocaean city, the heart and the accent pegged to Provence, lived in Paris most of his life.
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We even know of this painter who landed in the capital in 1897 no less than six successive workshops, on, or at the foot of the Butte.
And it is in one of them, the current Musée de Montmartre, a former suburban hotel that cultivates the memory of bohemianism with, under the cobblestones of rue Cortot, its exquisite Renoir garden and the reconstructed studio-apartment de Valadon and Utrillo, that about fifty of his oils have been brought together by Assia Quesnel and Saskia Ooms, with as many drawings, watercolors and pastels.
This selection may only represent one fortieth of the production, but it is enough, in particular by the many loans from collectors...
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