📍37 Rue Victor-Massé, 75009 Paris, France
1890 – 1912“I was born into a wealthy banking family in Paris, and my father, who loved music and art, let me give up the law to paint. I spent nearly all my life at the foot of Montmartre and around Pigalle, among the theatres, cafés, laundries and dance halls I painted. From 1890 to 1912 I lived at 37 Rue Victor-Massé, in an old building where I took four floors: my apartment, my studio up in the attic, and rooms I turned into a private museum for my collection — Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Manet, Gauguin, Cézanne, hundreds of drawings and prints. I painted the ballet dancers of the Opéra over and over, and the women of the city at their work. As my eyes failed I turned more and more to modelling in wax and pastel. In 1912 the building was sold to be demolished, and I was forced out; I was old, and that move broke something in me. I moved to the Boulevard de Clichy nearby, with my housekeeper Zoé, and hardly worked again, wandering the streets of Paris almost blind. A plaque marks the site of my studio.”
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