The Académie Ranson was founded in

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by the French painter

Paul Ranson Paul-Élie Ranson (29 March 1861 – 20 February 1909) was a French painter and writer associated with Les Nabis. Biography He was born in Limoges. His mother died in childbirth, so he was raised and educated by his grandparents and his ...

(1862–1909), who himself studied at the Académie Julian, in 1908.Académie Ranson

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History

With the untimely death of Paul Ranson in 1909, the Academy was headed by the wife of its founder, Marie-France Ranson. It was first based in Rue Henri Monnier in the 9th arrondissement and then moved to the

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district, in the Rue Joseph Bara.

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and

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delivered courses and

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, and

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also attended, which gave it a good reputation. Concetta, former model of Edgar Degas for ''Les repasseuses'' and Auguste Rodin for '' The Kiss'', helped its reputation too. Students attended for periods from a week to a year. In 1914, its teachers were depleted due to

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, but the Académie Ranson survived despite declining attendance. After 1918, Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier were occupied with other activities, and new teachers took over, many of them alumni: Yves Alix, Gustave Jaulmes, Paul Vera, Jules-Émile Zingg,

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, Louis Latapie, Dimitrios Galanis, and Amédée de la Patellière. In 1931, Marie-France Ranson handed over the management of the Academy to Harriet Von Tschudi Cérésole, a student and sculptor, originally from the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland. From 1939 to 1944, during

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, the Academy remains open for a few students. It opened again in 1951 with new teachers, including Roger Chastel, Marcel Fiorini, Lucien Lautrec, Gustave Singier, and Henri Goetz, but due to lack of funds it finally closed in 1955.

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* '' Académie Ranson'',

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