Jean Guindon was a socially engaged French painter of Provençal landscapes and maritime scenes. He worked in numerous ateliers in his native Marseille as well as Cassis, and was much involved with the boheme around the Old Port.

He moved to Cassis in 1923 where he received visits by many of the Fauvist avant-garde, and develops his particular work of gouaches on black carton. A large retrospective in Marseille’s Vieille Charite museum was created to honour him in 1971.