Impasse Ronsin

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 Brâncusi, Max Ernst, Marta Minujín, 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 Previously unpublished documents and photographs, as well as many texts by both eye-witnesses and art historians tell the story of this unusual urban network.