Claude Rutault, one of the leading French contemporary artists of his generation, died on May 21st, 2022. In this spring 2023, the Musée d’Orsay, in collaboration with the National Museum of Modern Art and the Louvre Museum, will be paying tribute to him by presenting la porte de la peinture (The Gates of Painting), a work inspired by Auguste Rodin’s La Porte de l’Enfer (The Gates of Hell).