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La Villa des Brillants, located in the Paris suburb of Meudon, is where August Rodin lived from 1895 until his death in 1917. Many of the great sculptor's most significant pieces were created here. It's also where he is buried, under a statue of 'The Thinker.'
Claude Monet is considered the founder of Impressionist painting. He lived and worked at his house in Giverny in northern France for 43 years, and created many paintings of the premises and gardens: the water lilies in the pond inspired his famous 'Water Lilies' series of canvases.
Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí's house is located at Portlligat in Catalonia. Originally a single fisherman's hut, the premises was expanded by Dalí over 40 years. It's now a museum that preserves and displays all the original house interiors.
Recognized for its cobalt-blue walls, the house in which Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born, raised, worked, and died is now a museum. Located in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of Mexico City, the museum displays a collection of artwork by Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera.
In 1945, Jackson Pollock, a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, and his wife Lee Krasner moved to what is now known as the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio in Springs in the town of East Hampton on Long Island, New York. Pollock worked in a studio barn where he perfected his famous drip technique. He died in a automobile wreck in 1956.
English painter, draftsman, and sculptor Frederic Leighton lived in a combined home and studio in Holland Park, London. The former private residence, noted for its dazzling, gilded interior, is filled with Leighton's own works and those of his contemporaries, and is open to the public.
A leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style, Renoir chose to spend summers with his family in Essoyes, in the Aube department of Champagne-Ardennes, from 1896 until his death in 1919. Today visitors can tour the premises, including the garden studio where the artist worked.
Known for his imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings, English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner lived at Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham, London, from 1818 until 1826. The house eventually opened to the public in 2017.
A historic landmark, Auberge Ravoux, located in the village of Auvers-sur-Oisehotel on the northwestern outskirts of Paris, is where Vincent van Gogh spent the last 70 days of his life. During his stay, the troubled Dutch artist created more than 80 paintings and 64 sketches before shooting himself in the chest on July 27, 1890 and dying two days later. The former inn is now a museum, and the room Van Gogh used has been restored and can be viewed by the public.
One of the most important figures in the history of art, Rembrandt painted many of his most celebrated works at his home and studio in Amsterdam, including the 'Night Watch.' He lived here for 20 years, and the premises, fully restored to its 17th-century state, is now a museum.
English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives in Cornwall during the Second World War. Her studio was established as the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden the year after Hepworth's death in 1975.
Château du Clos Lucé at Amboise in the Loire Valley was the official residence of Leonardo da Vinci between 1516 and 1519. The room in which the great Italian polymath of the High Renaissance passed away in, on May 2, 1519, has been preserved.
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso purchased Château of Vauvenargues just outside the town of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France in 1958. He occupied and remodeled the chateau from 1959 until 1962, before relocating to Mougins. Picasso and his wife Jacqueline are buried in the grounds of the château, which is still the private property of the Picasso family and can only be viewed by the public from a distance.
Boston, Massachusetts-born landscape painter and printmaker Winslow Homer is regarded as one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America. His home and studio in Scarborough, Maine opened to the public in 2012, but may only be visited on a guided tour.
French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne's purpose-built home studio in Aix-en-Provence is found more or less as he left it. He lived here from 1902 until his his death in 1906, during which he painted 'Grandes Baigneuses' ('Large Bathers').
American realist painter Edward Hopper, especially known for his 1942 canvas 'Nighthawks' that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night, worked out of a studio near Washington Square in New York City. He lived close by, at 3 Washington Square North, a brownstone building that can be viewed by the public from the outside only.
Frederic Edwin Church was a central figure in what's known as the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, a mid-19th century American art movement influenced by Romanticism. The Olana State Historic Site near Greenport, New York is Church's former home and studio complex.
Influential America artist Donald Judd is most closely associated with minimalism. The Judd Foundation maintains and preserves Judd's permanently-installed living and working spaces, and runs the Donald Judd House and Museum at 101 Spring Street in New York City.
English sculptor Henry Moore is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures, which are located around the world as public works of art. He made his home at Hoglands, a farmhouse located at Perry Green in Hertfordshire. The home and studio is now overseen by the Henry Moore Foundation.
After Irish-born British figurative painter Francis Bacon's death in 1992, his entire London studio was acquired by the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and dismantled and reassembled in the Irish capital as a permanent exhibit.
The former studio location of influential American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at 87 Great Jones Street in New York City was a former horse stable and owned by Andy Warhol. Basquiat worked here from 1983 to 1988. A plaque marks the spot.
Pictured is the exterior of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, the former home and studio of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting. The property is located at 218 Spring Street, Catskill, New York.
The studio of acclaimed Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist Joan Miró can be viewed at the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Palma, Majorca. The work of Barcelona-born Miró has been interpreted as Surrealism, bringing together the real and the imaginary.
Open to visitors on weekends is the studio of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, whose best known work, 'The Scream,' has become one of the iconic images of world art. The studio is located at Ekely, just outside Oslo. The artist is pictured in the same studio in 1943.
Just as with Francis Bacon, the studio of Romanian-born artist Constantin Brâncuși, who was based in Paris for 50 years, was also dismantled and reassembled. It was reconstructed as a permanent exhibit at Paris' Centre Pompidou.
English artist William Hogarth bought this house in Chiswick, West London as a country retreat in 1749, at the height of his success. Hogarth is especially known for 'A Rake's Progress,' a series of canvases produced in 1732–1734. While no practical evidence of artistic activity survives on site, Hogarth nonetheless may have been painting at Chiswick.
French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix lived at 6 rue de Furtsenberg in Paris from 1857 until his death in 1863. The apartment is now a museum and holds many of his paintings.
Sources: (The Clos Lucé) (The Hugh Lane) (Artist Studio Museum Network) (Biography)
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Georgia O'Keeffe is often described as the "Mother of American modernism." In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. In 1946, she moved into a single-story adobe structure in Abiquiú, which became her home and studio until 1984. It's now a historic house and museum.
The house and studio of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, pictured here in 1955, is recreated as it had looked in the artist's day in the René Magritte Museum in Jette, near Brussels. Magritte lived in the house for 24 years, between 1930 and 1954.
Touring the home or studio of a famous artist affords the opportunity to learn more about the creative occupant and discover where, perhaps, they drew their inspiration. In fact, visiting the residence of a celebrated sculptor or painter is like peeking into their soul. Some of these homes were designed by the artists themselves, making them their own work of art. And many are now fascinating house museums, where the studio is found more or less as it looked in the day.
Click through and open the doors to a collection of famous artist homes and studios.
Famous artist homes and studios you can visit
Numerous homes have become captivating house museum
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Touring the home or studio of a famous artist affords the opportunity to learn more about the creative occupant and discover where, perhaps, they drew their inspiration. In fact, visiting the residence of a celebrated sculptor or painter is like peeking into their soul. Some of these homes were designed by the artists themselves, making them their own work of art. And many are now fascinating house museums, where the studio is found more or less as it looked in the day.
Click through and open the doors to a collection of famous artist homes and studios.