Eugène Carrière
Eugène Carrière | |
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Born | Gournay-sur-Marne, France | 16 January 1849
Died | 27 March 1906 Paris, France | (aged 57)
Known for | Painting, Lithography |
Movement | Symbolism |
Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His paintings are best known for their brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Picasso. Some see traces of Carrière's monochrome style in Picasso's Blue Period.
Biography[]
He was born at Gournay-sur-Marne (Seine-Saint-Denis). He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later under Cabanel. During the Franco-Prussian War he passed some time as a prisoner in Dresden, where the art of Rubens made a lasting impression on him, as may be seen in the glowing colors of his early paintings. About 1890 he adopted the gray, misty-color scheme with contrasts of light and shadow, so characteristic of his art, but which no other artist has been able to imitate without affectation.[1]
His themes usually are scenes of his domestic life, and he repeatedly introduced the likeness of his wife in his paintings. The first of these, The Young Mother (1879), is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. It was followed by, The Sick Child (Montargis), The First Communion (Toulon), and the highly praised 1887 portrait of the sculptor .[2]
Carrière was one of the leaders in the secessionist movement, which led to the founding of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. At the Société, Carrière exhibited, among other works, Sleep (1890), the celebrated portrait of Paul Verlaine (1891, Luxembourg), Maternity (1892, Luxembourg), Christ on the Cross (1897), and Madame Menard-Dorian (1906).[1]
Carrière played an influential role as an art teacher at Académie de La Palette.
He also modeled a monument to Verlaine in the style of Rodin.
Several of his works may be found at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and in National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade.
Selected paintings[]
Priam at the Feet of Achilles (1876), oil on canvas, dimensions unknown, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau
Winding Wool (1887), oil on canvas, 99.5 x 87.6 cm., National Gallery, London
Woman from Behind Undressing (c. 1890–95), oil on canvas 46.5 x 38.5 cm., collection unknown
The Theater of Belleville (1895), oil on canvas, 220 x 490 cm., Musée Rodin, Paris
Virgin at the Foot of the Cross (1897), oil on canvas, Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art
Le Réveil, Her Mother's Kiss (1899), oil on canvas, 94 x 120 cm., Pushkin Museum, Moscow
The Mothers (1900). oil on canvas, 283.2 x 362.7 cm., Musée du Petit Palais, Paris
The Contemplator (1901), oil on canvas, 33.6 x 41 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Landscape in the Orne (c. 1901), oil on prepared paper mounted on canvas, 32.7 x 41.3 cm., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Portraits and figures
Portrait of a Boy (1886), oil on canvas, cm., Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Verlaine (1890), oil on canvas, 149.8x 121.9 cm., Musée du Louvre, Paris
Portrait of Paul Gauguin (1891), oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Woman Leaning on a Table (1893), oil on canvas, 65 x 54.3 cm., The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Woman Looking (date unknown), oil on canvas, 81 x 65,3 cm., Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Two Women (c. 1895), oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Girl with Her Hair Down (1900-05), dimensions unknown, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm
Arsène Carriere (1899-1900), oil on canvas, 55.56 × 46.36 cm., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Prints and graphics
Newborn in a Bonnet (1890), lithograph, 25.5 x 19.2 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art
Alphonse Daudet (1893), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Rochefort (1896), lithograph, British Museum, London
Paul Verlaine (1896), lithograph, 52 x 40.6 cm., Cleveland Museum of Art
Puvis de Chavannes (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Rodin (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sleep (1897), lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Jean Dolent (1898), lithograph, 22.9 x 17 cm., British Museum, London
Mlle Marguerite Carrière Singing (1901), litograph, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm
Poster: Literary, Artistic, Aocial Aurore (1898), Bibliothèque Nationale de France
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bantens, Robert (1989). Eugene Carriere: The Symbol of Creation. New York: Kent Fine Art.
- ^ Louis-Henri Devillez in his Studio, by Eugène Carrière, 1887, tumblr.com
Further reading[]
- Séailles, Gabriel (1901). Eugéne Carrière, l'homme et l'artiste: Compositions et croquis de E. Carriére gravés par Mathie. Paris: Pelletan.
- Geffroy, Gustave (1901). L'oeuvre de E. Carrière (The Works of E. Carrière). Paris: H. Piazza.
- Morice, Charles (1906). Eugéne Carrière: L'homme et sa pensée; l'artiste et son œuvre; essai de nomenclature des oeuvres principales. Paris: Société du Mercure de France.
- Faure, Elie (1908). Eugéne Carrière, peintre et lithographe. Paris: H. Floury.
- Musée d'Orsay; Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan (National Museum of Western Art) (2006). Auguste Rodin; Eugène Carrière. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-011626-0.
- Agnès, Lauvinerie; Eduardo Leal de la Gala (2006). Moi, Eugène Carrière. Paris.
External links[]
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- Eugène Carrière at the Museum of Modern Art
- Eugène Carrière: Symbols of Creations Exhibition at Kent Fine Art, New York
- Musée Virtuel Eugène Carrière
- Hollis, Richard. "Ghostly realist", The Guardian, August 26, 2006
- Paintings at Beauty and Ruin
- Paintings at Artcyclopedia
- Eugène Carrière at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
- 1849 births
- 1906 deaths
- People from Gournay-sur-Marne
- 19th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 20th-century French painters
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- French Symbolist painters
- Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery
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