Eugene Carrière, 1849-1906
A portraitist and intimist painter as well as an early representative of the monochromatic trend, Eugène Carrière (1849-1906) was adulated in his lifetime and totally in tune with his times. The professional life of this faithful friend of Rodin and close companion of Gauguin, Verlaine, Mallarmé and the Goncourts, will immerse us into the teeming artistic life of the turn of the twentieth century.
Type (Documentaire / Documentaire fiction / Série documentaire)DocumentaryGenre en anglaisArt & cultureDirected by Véronique Bonnet-NoraYear2006Duration26min
This will be the story of a gigantic investigation, of a mad rush for lost paintings, forgotten masterpieces, the missing link… a thrilling adventure which will take us from auction rooms to anonymous art collectors, from renowned museums to secret places, and piece together for us the jigsaw puzzle of the life and works of this painter.
The director-narrator will visit many a foreign country in search of an unknown or apparently lost world; a world suddenly traced on the other side of the planet, as with this portrait of Rodin – the lifelong friend – hanging since the thirties on the wall of the drawing room of an old Argentinian gentleman in Buenos Aires. Or again, with the collection in the German city of Bremen of a dedicated amateur having purchased more than fifty paintings and drawings within the past ten years and capable of driving through Europe in one go to bring back a coveted work as swiftly as possible.
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