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Camille Roche Paintings
Camille Roche was born in Paris in 1894 into a family of artists. His father Odilon Roche was an
artist and art dealer and he perceived his son’s artistic predispositions very early and
encouraged him to carry out his pictorial research alone, moving away from the rigor imposed by
official institutions. An early self-taught artist, Camille Roche exhibited two works
at the Salon d’Automne of 1905 in the Fauve section alongside Braque , Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck, he was then 11 years old.
He continued his apprenticeship and travelled to Italy
and Tunisia where he produced numerous drawings. He received his first decor orders in 1913 and
designed large oriental-inspired frescoes for Colette’s apartment, then Coco
Chanel’s a few years later.
Mobilized in 1914, he was seriously injured in combat which led to his being demobilized in 1916. He
then found his easel again and returned to his favorite subjects: nature and the animal world,
refuges to forget the horrors of war. Steeped in Far Eastern influences, Camille created his
own artistic vocabulary.
In 1920, he was awarded the first class of the American Foundation for Thought and Art.
also known as the “Florence Blumenthal Foundation”. Several solo exhibitions
were dedicated to him at the Galerie Devambez in 1924 and at the Galerie Vincent in 1930. The artist
also regularly participated in the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, the Salon
of the National Society of Fine Arts and at the Salon of the Society of Animal Artists.
Approached by the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, he began a collaboration which would last for
many years and exhibited his work during the two International Exhibitions of 1925 and
1937, for which he executed Le Paradis Terrestre et le Boudoir by Serge and Camille Roche, a
work created with the participation of his brother Serge.
The decade of the 1930s marked the prolific collaboration between the two brothers. Camille participated
to the numerous orders that Serge Roche received, and thus created most of the decorations for the hotel
privately owned by Serge located at Rue de Las Cases in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Together they explored
new technical processes and organized exhibitions where they presented panels of
painted glass decorated with stucco, screens on gold and silver backgrounds, recalling the work of Max
Ingrand for his works fixed under églomisé glass, and even terrestrial globes in smoked glass
and silver ice.
Their work fascinated the public and earned Camille several important commissions, the most remarkable
being that of the Villa “Le Roc” in Juan-les-Pins, belonging to Lady and Lord Cholomndely,
chamberlain to the Queen of England. The artist imagined lush trompe-l’oeil gardens and
aquatic ornaments for dining rooms, living rooms and cool room decors.
Camille Roche Paintings
