More than a hundred years, from around 1864 until 1971 the Impasse Ronsin in Paris was home to a warren of studios used by wide variety of artists with very different backgrounds and approaches. This curious cul-de-sac hidden away in Montparnasse served as home and atelier to some 220 artists, from academic sculptor Alfred Boucher to Argentine performance artist Marta Minuj�n. Amongst the best known were; Eva Aeppli, William Copley, Andr� Almo Del Debbio, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Claude and Fran�ois-Xavier Lalanne, James Metcalf, Isamu Noguchi, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. If Constantin Br�ncuși was its most famous resident - based there from 1916 until his death - it's most infamous was Madame Steinheil, mistress and maybe murderer of the French President whose artist-husband also met a brutal end, turning the Impasse Ronsin into one of the most notorious crime scenes of the early 20th century.

Texts by Phyllida Barlow, Oscar Chelimsky, Iris Clert, Bill Copley, Adrian Dannatt, Christophe-Emmanuel del Debbio, Paul B. Franklin, Paul-Armand Gette, Jasper Johns, John Kasmin, Rotraut Klein-Moquay, Claude Lalanne, Liliane Lijn, Harry Mathews, Marta Minuj�n, Monique Alicia Mo�-Orban, Karen Moller, Olivier Mosset, J�r�me Neutres, Elsa No�l-Guesnon, Isamu Noguchi, Andres Pardey, Reginald Pollack, Clarice Rivers, Larry Rivers, Philippe Roux, Niki de Saint Phalle, Luc Sante, Roy Skodnick, Daniel Spoerri, Haroun Tazieff, Calvin Tomkins, Phillys Tower, Roland Wetzel

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Impasse Ronsin, a dead-end street in the midst of Paris’s Montparnasse district, was a unique artists’ colony, known for more than a century as place of art, contemplation, conversation, celebration, innovation, creation, and destruction. The place was marked by a broad range of diverse artistic identities that went far beyond the avantgarde, with artists including Constantin Br�ncusi, Max Ernst, Marta Minuj�n, Eva Aeppli, and Niki de Saint Phalle. This publication presents over 50 artists with more than 200 works, all made at Impasse Ronsin. Previously unpublished documents and photographs, as well as many texts by both eye-witnesses and art historians tell the story of this unusual urban network.

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