Paris: House Mimi

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

softground etching, aquatint, and color aquatint 

10 7/8 x 12 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

P.p. (printer's proof) 

pencil titled, in lower left; editioned as "P.p." (total edition size not stated); bears the red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in the lower left 

artist's estate checklist, listed as "Haus der Mimi" 

ivory simile vellum wove 

published 

artist 

22996 

SOLD

In Montmartre in 1902, composer Gustave Charpentier opened the Conservatoire Populaire Mimi Pinson, a music conservatory intended for working-class women. It was named for the character in Alfred de Musset's poem of the same name. The conservatory was a short lived endeavor and the building, a 17th century structure probably used as an inn, was demolished in 1925 to make way for apartment buildings.