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Paris is full of museums and galleries, sculptures in public gardens and treasures sometimes glanced at in old courtyards. The city has also been the home of artists who came from all over the world to settle in the city of light. Many of their houses and studios have been turned into little museums which are now open to the public. Here is a walk around Paris following the path of these artists. |
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Montparnasse
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Musée Bourdelle 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle 75015 Paris Tel: 01 49 54 73 73 10am-5:40pm. Closed on Mon. The sculptor's museum is one of the city's most wonderful little museums, with its garden filled with monumental sculptures. The contrast is stark with Bourdelle's modest apartment and the room where his father, a cabinetmaker, died. The atelier where the artist worked has remained intact. |
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musée du Montparnasse 21, ave du Maine 75015 Paris Tel: 01 41 22 91 96 1pm-7pm. Closed Mon. and Tues. Marie Vassilieff was a Russian painter and her atelier became a museum in an enchanting dead end, full of flowers and vegetation. During the Great War, Marie Vassilieff started a soup kitchen for needy artists. Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani, Fernand Lˇger, and many others used to meet there. |
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musée Zadkine 100 bis, rue d'Assas 75006 Paris Tel: 01 43 26 91 90 10am-5pm. Closed on Mon. Ossip Zadkine built this tiny place hidden from the rue d'Assas, across from the jardin du Luxembourg, where he lived and worked with his wife, painter Valentine Prax. Not much is left of the artist's work, but the museum often presents interesting shows and it is one of the loveliest oases in the city. |
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Saint-Germain
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L'atelier
Eugène Delacroix 6, rue de Furstenberg 75006 Paris Tel: 01 44 41 86 50 9:30am-5pm. Closed on Tues. Delacroix moved into this house in 1857 and built an atelier in the garden. In his bedroom, his chair, desk and souvenirs he brought back from his trip to Marocco in 1832 are assembled. In the big atelier, his painting material still remain. The garden has just been renovated based on old documents depicting the way it was when Delacroix lived there. |
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Passy-Auteuil
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maison de Balzac 47, rue Raynouard 75116 Paris Tel:01 55 74 41 80 10am-5:40pm. Closed on Mon. Despite the architectural monstrosity, the peaceful neighborhood retains some of the charm and character it had when Honoré de Balzac lived here. The house has two different entrances which allowed the writer to escape all his creditors. In the spring, the garden is lovely and the house remains as it was when Balzac lived there. |
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Atelier-maison
d'Henri Bouchard 25, rue de l'Yvette 75016 Paris Tel: 01 46 47 63 46 2pm-7pm, on Wed and Sat. Closed Sept., Dec., Mar. and Je 16-31 In 1920, sculptor Henri Bouchard left Montparnasse for the quiet and bourgeois neighborhood of Auteuil, to build his dream studio. Bouchard's son and daughter in law have opened his house to the public which has remained intact, with its large plaster sculptures and his tools. In the little rose garden you can admire the sculpture of Le Faucheur, created while he was an artist in residence at the Villa Medici, in Rome. www.musee-bouchard.com |
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Meudon
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Rodin's
Villa des Brillants 19, ave Auguste Rodin 92190 Meudon Tel: 01 41 14 35 00 1:30pm-6pm, Fri., Sat. and Sun., May 1-Oct. 26 Rodin lived in this red Louis XIII villa from 1895 until his death in 1917. The artist bought little houses all around the villa, transformed them into studios, surrounded by a beautiful garden. Everyone came to visit the genius in his house, even Edward VII, the king of England. The museum is filled with Rodin's sculptures. One can also visit the dining room and the drawing room, left exactly as they were when Rodin lived there. In the summer, one can also have lunch in a lovely atelier. |
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Pigalle
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de la Vie Romantique 16, rue Chaptal 75009 Paris Tel: 01 48 74 95 38 10am-5:40pm, except Mon. At the end of a lovely path lined with trees and cobblestones hides the Musée de la vie romantique, one of the most magical places to have tea. (until the end of September). Dutch painter Ary Scheffer lived there from 1830 until 1858 and built two ateliers. The house has been renovated by star decorator Jacques Garcia. You can see some of Scheffer's paintings. |
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Gustave Moreau 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld 75009 Paris Tel: 01 48 74 38 50 10am-12:45pm and 2pm-5:45pm, except Tues. This museum is one of the most extravagant of them all. At the end of his life, Moreau had two beautiful ateliers built one on top of the another, painted in rose and connected by a spectacular spiral staircase. In the painter's bedroom, you can still see the uniform he wore when he went to the Académie Française. |
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