The critic and art historian Bernard Dorival called him "the most impressionistic of the Fauves". Charles Camoin, virtuoso painter of the first half of the twentieth century, leaves behind him the image of a fauve in freedom, nourished by his many artistic encounters, freed without difficulty from the dominant rules of academism. Disassociated for the time of an exhibition from his great art companions, Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck, the painter from Marseille is today crowned with a new glory at the Musée de Montmartre. Through a selection of a hundred colorful paintings and drawings, the Parisian institution traces the evolution of the creative process of the artist, a great admirer of the Impressionists, and this at the very location of one of his former studios! Following a chronological path, the exhibition, placed under the sign of the shimmering colors of Fauvism, gives pride of place to his numerous female nudes and his flamboyant series of landscapes. These works still carry a sweet perfume of scandal... just like the artist himself, who was resolutely free! Influenced by Renoir, guided by Cézanne, Camoin asserts himself here as the author of a complex, daring and spontaneous work. A hymn to color to be savored without moderation...