PARIS, FRANCE.- The Mus閑 d'Orsay presents C閦anne and Pissarro 1865-1885, on view through May 28, 2006. Towards the end of his life, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) wrote: "C閦anne [...] was influenced by me in Pontoise, and I by him. [...] By Jove, we were inseparable! But what is certain is that each of us retained the only thing that matters, "his sense of feeling"... this is easy enough to demonstrate..." (letter to his son Lucien, November 22, 1895). The exhibition in hand is a realisation of this statement. It aims to examine, in terms of their art, the relationship between Paul C閦anne (1839-1906) and Pissarro over twenty years of mutual influence and friendship, from the beginning of their careers up to the mid-1880s.

Portraits, still-lives and landscapes by both artists are brought together to demonstrate the similarity of their vision in 1875. Later, C閦anne reinterpreted some of Pissarro's earlier compositions and took up some of his elder's previously adopted view points. The hanging of their works together highlights the "kinship" in their approach to subjects, which was highly significant in perpetuating the enduring links that united the two artists.

Curators: Joachim Pissarro, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jean-Patrice Marandel, Chief Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sylvie Patin, Chief Curator, Mus閑 d'Orsay. Exhibition organised by the Mus閑 d'Orsay and the R閡nion des mus閑s nationaux in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York.