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Marius-Joseph Sain was born in 1877 in Monfavet (Vaucluse) and died in 1961. He attended the schoolof Fine Arts in Avignon and then in Marseille, where he was awarded several medals and prizes. Following the death of his parents in 1901 (he erected a monument in their memory in the cemetery of Montfavet, Vaucluse), he moved to Paris in 1902 and settled in the rue de Seine. Having passed the highly competitive examination for entry to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and having received a scholarship from the city of Avignon, he studied under the likes of Gabriel Thomas, Antoine Injalbert, Henri Allouard and Félix Charpentier.

In 1903, he participated in the third exhibition of the Vaucluse Society of Friends of the Arts. He also exhibited “À la recherche des crabes” in the famous Parisian salon of the Society of French Artists, a work that earned him an honorable mention and was purchased by Baron de Rotschild for the Grenoble Museum of Fine Arts. In 1910, Marius Sain was awarded a travel grant for his participation in the Salon of the Colonial Society of French Artists. He went to live in Algeria for several months and brought back several orientalist models. In 1912, he went to Greece, but joined the WWI war effort in 1914.

Between 1922 and 1926, Sain was awarded prizes by the Colonial Society of French Artists, where he exhibited two plaster casts of a young Arab girl and a young Arab shepherd, and the prize of French Equatorial Africa. In 1926 he was nominated to the order of the Legion of Honor and exhibited at the Salon of the Society of French Artists until 1935.