Auguste Rodin / Eugène Carrière

Rodin and Carrière met in the 1880s, probably through the critic Roger Marx.
Critics of the time and the artists' early biographers remarked on the affinity between the two men. But whilst, since his death, Rodin's reputation steadily increased leading to today's universal recognition, Carrière, although widely known in his lifetime, is nowadays seldom thought of. 2006 being the centenary year of Carrière's death provides a good occasion to reappraise his work.
Not only does this exhibition offer a rare confrontation between painting and sculpture but, in presenting around a hundred very different works: baked clays, plaster casts, marble and bronze pieces, drawings and etchings by Rodin, and paintings, drawings and lithographs by Carrière, it also endeavours to provide an overview of the more subtle diversities between the artists. The exhibition has been made possible thanks to exceptional loans made by the Musée Rodin and the artist's descendants.