Blanche Camus (1884-1968)
Blanche Camus studied at the Academe Julien and the Beaux Arts in Paris. She painted most of her life in and around the hills and gardens of St. Tropez. Her friends and neighbors were Paul Signac and Henri Martin. Signac along with Georges Seurat (1859-1891) developed the divisionist technique of pointillism. Blanche, however, developed her own style and captured the light through the use of ?tache de couleur?. She exhibited regularly at the ?Salon des Artists Francais? from 1910 to 1939. In 1925 along with other leading Post Impressionists she exhibited in New York, Pittsburg, and St. Louis. Retrospective shows in the 1980?s in Paris and London caused a resurgence of her public acclaim and she is now considered one of the foremost women artist of the early part of the 20th Century.
Blanche Camus (1884-1968)
"Flowers in a Vase"
oil on canvas on board, signed lower right
signed and inscribed verso
13.5 x 9.5 in. / 34 x 24 cm.
part gesso and gold leaf frame
20 x 15 in. overall