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"tombstone": "Armand Berton, c. 1891. Eug\u00e8ne Carri\u00e8re (French, 1849\u20131906). Oil on fabric; framed: 62.2 x 54 x 7.6 cm (24 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 3 in.); unframed: 46 x 38 cm (18 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, 1980.244",
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"title": "Armand Berton",
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"measurements": "Framed: 62.2 x 54 x 7.6 cm (24 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 3 in.); Unframed: 46 x 38 cm (18 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signed in paint at lower left: Eug\u00e8ne Carri\u00e8re\r\n",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1980",
"description": "Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).",
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"description": "Armand Berton, Paris. M. G. Masson (written in pencil on stretcher). Paris sale, Drouot, 5 May 1970 (lot 12), Portrait du peintre Armand Berton, 46 x 38 cm, ff 3,800. (A photograph in the Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Documentation, gives the information that the painting was at one point with Galerie Alain Lesieutre, Paris.) London sale, Sotheby's, 6 December 1973 (lot 29, repr.), Portrait du peintre Armand Breton [sic], for \u00a3700 to Dabney Associates. London sale, Sotheby's, 4 December 1975 (lot 335, repr.), Portrait du peintre Armand Breton [sic] [bought in]. Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.",
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"description": "Associated with the 19th-century Symbolist movement in France, Carri\u00e8re developed a distinctive, almost monochromatic palette suggesting a dream world. The limited color in this portrait of his friend, the deaf painter Armand Berton, also focuses attention on the psychology of the sitter. Translucent glazes make Berton's face emerge from the shadows. Engulfed in silence, Berton seems to rely on his other senses to perceive the world around him.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1980.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163\u2013219.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 178; Mentioned: p. 213, no. 89",
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"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"biography": "Eug\u00e8ne Carri\u00e8re grew up in Strasbourg, the sixth of seven children in a working-class family. He attended the city's academy in 1862 and two years later worked as a commercial lithographer. In 1869 Carri\u00e8re moved to Paris, where he discovered the art of the Old Masters, Rubens in particular, which influenced his decision to become an artist. He entered the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and studied under one of the foremost academic painters, Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). His training was suspended, however, with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Shortly after enlisting, he was captured by the Germans and taken to Dresden where he was held prisoner for one year. At the end of the war he returned to Paris to resume his studies under Cabanel, and to support himself he worked for a lithographer friend, Jules Ch\u00e9ret (1836-1932). Carri\u00e8re's painting career took off slowly, and in the Salons of 1876, 1877, and 1878 his paintings received little recognition. In 1878 he married Sophie Desmonceaux (with whom he would have seven children), and the couple spent six months in London where he discovered the works of Turner (q.v.). Back in Paris, he spent the next decade working odd jobs, most often in printshops in order to sustain his family. Through his brother, a ceramist, Carri\u00e8re began working in 1880 for the S\u00e8vres porcelain factory and there met sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). This friendly and steady associ-ation inspired each artist's work. In 1879 Carri\u00e8re had painted his first maternit\u00e9 entitled Jeune m\u00e8re (Mus\u00e9e Calvet, Avignon), a subject to which he would return throughout his career. His success as a painter began at the Salon of 1884 when his entry received an honorable mention. His good fortune continued with awards at the Salons of 1885 and 1887. Two years later, a medal at the Universal Exposition and the Legion of Honor indicated how well his work was received by critics, artists, and writers. From 1890 through 1897, Carri\u00e8re lived his most fruitful years as an artist, began making lithographs, and frequently traveled abroad. He was connected with most of the important critics and avant-garde artists of the time, such as Bonnard (q.v.), Gauguin (q.v.), Vuillard (q.v.), Maurice Denis (1870-1943), and Paul S\u00e9rusier (1864-1927). He was also admired by the symbolists for the dreamlike quality of his paintings. In 1890 he associated himself with Meissonier (q.v.), Rodin, F\u00e9lix Bracquemond (1833-1914), and Puvis de Chavannes (q.v.), who founded the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale des Beaux-Arts in opposition to the official system of the Salon des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais. In 1903, in an effort to oppose restrictive rules of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale, Carri\u00e8re established a new salon, the Salon d'Automne, and was named its president.",
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