Joan Mitchell Studio (3rd)

A studio located on Rue Frémicourt in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, where Joan Mitchell settled in 1959 and worked for several years. The house she shared with Jean-Paul Riopelle, with whom Mitchell was in a long-term relationship, soon became the most desired location for a sojourn for Parisian residents and American visitors.

Mitchell described it as “the closest thing to a loft that exists in Paris.” The Frémicourt studio was spacious and open, allowing her to work on multiple canvases simultaneously, and included a movable wall that extended the available working surface. In this studio, she worked on increasingly large canvases and developed new approaches to the application of paint. Over time, the lack of privacy in this home studio proved challenging for Mitchell, and the couple moved to the, Vétheuil in 1967.