01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #87

Charles Camoin, (1879 - 1965)

Portrait of Jeanne Loviton, known as Jean Voilier 

Oil on canvas 

55 x 46.5 cm 

Private collection

Jean Voilier, whose real name is Jeanne Loviton , Was a French publisher and novelist. Jeanne Loviton was born on April 1st, 1903 in Paris, of unknown father. Her mother was an artist known as Denise Fleury. In 1913 she married the publisher Ferdinand Loviton who adopts Jean the same year. Jeanne wass a high school student at Fénelon High School and Notre-Dame College in Sion. In 1925 she received her law degree.

She obtained a lawyer-trainee card on April 14, 1926; Maurice Garçon hired her as secretary for about a year. She did not practice the profession.

She married at the age of 24 the writer Pierre Frondaie , whom she divorced in 1936. It was at this time that she began her activities as a journalist and published under the pseudonym of Jean Voilier. Her first novel, Beauté raison majeure , was published in 1936 by Éditions Émile-Paul frères. She then published several other novels: Days of light in 1940 (J. Ferenczi and son), Open city in 1942 ( Emile-Paul brothers ) and Les Manèges in 1989 ( Belfond-youth ).

She died in Paris on July 20, 1996. She is buried in the Notre-Dame de Versailles cemetery , where her grave (Loviton) is simply named Jeanne. More on Jean Voilier

Charles Camoin (23 September 1879 – 20 May 1965) was a French expressionist landscape painter associated with the Fauves.

Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves (meaning "the wild beasts") for their wild, expressionist-like use of color. Camoin always remained close to Matisse. He painted a portrait of Matisse, which is in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Museum in Paris.

Charles Camoin's works have been widely shown in France and are in such major collections as the Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris in addition to the Centre Georges Pompidou and many of the French regional museums. In 1955, he was awarded the Prix du President de la Republique at the Biennale of Menton. He died in Paris on 20 May 1965. More on Charles Camoin

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