c. 1910
Oil on canvas
46 x 60 cm
2010.1.1
Donated by Michel Descours, 2010
© Musée de Valence, photo Béatrice Roussel
Émilie Charmy began her career in Lyon and moved to Paris in 1903, where she exhibited in the main Fauvist section of the Autumn Exhibition. She met Camoin (1879-1965), with whom she travelled the south of France and Corsica between 1906 and 1912 and painted numerous landscapes. This “robust” Corsican landscape offers a sweeping view of a rocky cliff. It is part of a series that may date from the 1910s. Its fragmented patterns surrounded by black and vivid palette contrasting with refined nuance, place it among the avant-garde works of the time. Abandoning landscape, Émilie Charmy next turned her hand to portraiture.