Lot 3238 - A201 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 01. July 2022, 05.00 PM
CHARLES CAMOIN
(Marseille 1879–1965 Paris)
Nu couché au miroir. 1904.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right: Camoin.
65 × 81 cm.
We would like to thank the Archives Camoin for confirming the authenticity of the work, February 2022.
Provenance:
- Franz Edouard Lüthy collection, Le Havre, probably acquired directly from the artist.
- Swiss private collection, by descent from the above over several generations to the present owners and since its acquisition owned by the same family.
Exhibited:
- Le Havre 1907, Exposition Cercle de l'Art Moderne, Le Havre, May-June 1907, no. 7 (titled "Étude de nu").
- Paris 2012/13, Le Cercle de l'Art Moderne. Collectionneurs d'avant-garde au Havre, Musée Luxembourg, 19.9.2012–6.1.2013, no. 70 (with ill. cat. p. 179).
Literature:
Danièle Giraudy: Camoin: sa vie son œuvre, Marseille 1972, p. 179, no. 26.
The female nude presented here, "Nu couché au miroir”, was created while Charles Camoin travelled with Albert Marquet on a fifteen-day trip to Saint Tropez. The artists focused on the theme of femininity in a series of erotically charged nudes, using prostitutes as models. Taking inspiration and direction from Manet's scandalous “Olympia”, they attempted to similarly excite the minds of their viewers. Painted at the beginning of 1904, the work is one of Camoin's very first nudes. The paradoxical combination of its soft pastel shades and gentle nuances of colour with the immediacy of the subject creates a stylistic-thematic tension. If the pose of the model and the sensuality of his composition sought proximity to Manet, the expressionist palette and the rapid, gestural brushwork were dedicated to the Fauves. (For more on the provenance of the painting, see the text for lot 3239).
CHF 7 000 / 10 000 | (€ 7 220 / 10 310)
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