Auguste Rodin / Eugène Carrière



With nearly a hundred works using many different techniques, the Rodin/Carrière exhibition is a rare opportunity to compare a painter and a sculptor who were linked by a deep friendship and strong stylistic affinities.

A hundred years after the painter's death, Auguste Rodin and Eugène Carrière may seem an odd pair. And yet their partnership was a fact, which drew critical comment at the time. The exhibition brings out the formal similarities between the two artists, such as the lack of finish, which shocked their contemporaries. Rodin was reproached for making his figures emerge from a scarcely roughed out block of marble. Carrière was criticised for placing his figures against a vague background, for the lack of defined space, identified objects or precise details, and for the near monochrome of his paintings. It is a "second reality" that they show us in which everything is transitory and shifting, forever looming up or fading away. Visitors can observe the similarity in their procedures and their reciprocal influence which made Camille Mauclair say: "Rodin paints in marble and Carrière sculpts with shadow."



The exhibition has been made possible thanks to exceptional loans made by the Musée Rodin and the artist's descendants.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

2006 Ticket Prices
Ticket for the museum and exhibitions except Maurice Denis
Full price : 7.5 Euros
Reduced rate : 5.5 Euros
On Sundays and from 4.15 pm (8 pm on Thursdays): 5.5 Euros

Access
entrance to the museum and exhibitions by the square 1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
* for individual visitors without ticket on the side of the river Seine, entrance A

Transportation
Buses: 24, 63, 68, 69, 73, 83, 84, and 94
Métro: line 12, Solférino station
RER: line C, Musée d'Orsay station
Boat: Batobus
Taxis: Rue de Solférino and Quai Anatole-France
Car parks: Deligny, Louvre and Montalembert
Opening Hours
The museum is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 6pm
and on Thursdays from 9.30am to 9.45pm

Tickets sold until 5pm, 9pm on Thursdays

Galleries start closing at 5.30pm, 9.15pm on Thursdays

For further information, you can visit the following website:
Musee d'Orsay