Camille Hilaire

Camille Hilaire was a French painter
Born in 1916 and died in 2004. He was from from Metz. He attended the Ecole des Beaux- Arts in Paris during World War II.

Hilaire's painting reveals influences from Cubism but without the rigidity typical of the early years of the movement. He was
awarded the Prix de Venise in 1948 and the Prix de la Casa de Velazquez in 1950. He held his first exhibition in Paris in 1951 at the
Gallerie Valloton. He then exhibited at the international art fairs in Geneva, Cannes and Deauville. Camille Hilaire is subtle in his composition. He held power with colour and achieved a wonderful, consistent sense of calm, amplitude and greatness by translating pattern.

He left behind a large body of works that has strongly influenced the French painters of the mid-twentieth century.
13 x 22 out of frame.