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Artist workshop building à Paris 1er dans Paris

Artist workshop building

    36 Avenue Junot
    75018 Paris 18e Arrondissement
Private property
Museums of France
The classified industrial heritage of France
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Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1895–1896
Construction of building
1908–1910
Construction of the building on street
16 décembre 2022
Historical monument classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The following parts of the residential and workshop building located 36 Junot Avenue and 14-18 Simon-Dereure Street: the street and courtyard façades, including the three terraces located, for the first on the second floor overlooking Junot Avenue and on the third floor of buildings A and B overlooking the courtyard for the next two, as well as the passageways of buildings A, B and C; roofs, including the roof terrace of Building C; common areas: courtyards, including ground pavements, walkways, walls, fountains and their gutters, columnettes, stairwells, ironworks in the elevator cage of Building A and its cabin, internal traffic spaces (roadways and corridors); as delimited by a red border on the planes annexed to the Order (see Box AT 10: Registration by order of 9 December 2019

Key figures

Théodore Bailly - Painter and sponsor Ordered the construction in 1895.
Auguste Renoir - Impressionist painter Held a workshop from 1902 to 1912.
Marcel Duchamp - Dadaist artist Residence in the building from 1906 to 1908.
Ponsignon - Suspected architect Probable author of initial plans.
Armand Gauthier - Architect Designed the building on street in 1908–10.
Jules Pascin - Expressionist painter Held a workshop in 1921–92.

Origin and history

The artist workshop building, located at 73 rue Caulaincourt in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, was erected between 1895 and 1896 during the urbanization of the northern part of this street, once occupied by gypsum quarries. Sponsored by the painter Théodore Bailly and probably designed by an architect named Ponsignon, the building is distinguished by its two contrasting facades: a south elevation in pan-de-bois evoking the 15th–12th century, and an industrialized north façade, pierced by large metal windows illuminating the workshops. Originally preceded by a garden, the building was preserved despite the construction of a building on street façade in 1908–10 by architect Armand Gauthier.

The architectural singularity of the pan-de-bois facade, surmounted by a slate-painted roof and overflowing skylights, has fed the legend of an origin linked to a universal exhibition – a hypothesis never confirmed by research. The building housed seven workshops, occupied by major figures of modern art: Théophile Steinlen (1896–1906), Alfredo Muller (1896–1902), Auguste Renoir (1902–1912), Marcel Duchamp (1906–1908), and Jules Pascin (1921–1992). Its spatial organization, with basement floors compensating for the slope of the terrain, reflects an ingenious adaptation to Montmartre's topographical constraints.

Filed with the additional inventory of historical monuments in December 2022, the building illustrates the transition between the 19th century Bohemian Montmartre and its gradual urbanization at the beginning of the 20th century. The protected areas include facades, roofs, as well as the stairwell with its original elements (gates, grills, lanterns). This emblematic place, although masked by later constructions, bears witness to the artistic effervescence that marked the Montmartre hill, between medieval heritage revisited and industrial modernity.

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