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Armand Berton
Eugène Carrièrec. 1891
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Associated with the 19th-century Symbolist movement in France, Carrière 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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- Title: Armand Berton
- Creator: Eugène Carrière (French, 1849-1906)
- Date Created: c. 1891
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: 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 Musée 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 £700 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.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.244
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed in paint at lower left: Eugène Carrière
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1980.244
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