LE BATEAU-LAVOIR

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'Le Bateau-Lavoir' was a squalid block of buildings in Montmartre,
Paris situated at 13 Rue Ravignan (Place Emile Goudeau). The place
is famous because at the turn of the 20th century a group of outstanding
artists lived and rented artistic studios there.
First artists started to settle at the Bateau-Lavoir in the 1890s but
after 1914 they started to move elsewhere (mainly Montparnasse).
The name of the place means ''the laundry-boat'' because it resembled
boats of laundry women.
One of the most famous residents of the place was Pablo Picasso
(1904-1909) where he lived with his dog Frika. He reputedly invented cubism there and painted one of his finest works ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon''.
Other well-known artists who lived in the Bateau-Lavoir:

★ Pablo Gargallo

★ Juan Gris

★ Max Jacob

★ Amedeo Modigliani

★ Pierre Reverdy (1912-1913)

★ André Salmon
At that time the tenement house was a meeting place of a lot of prominent figures of artistic avant-garde, like Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein and others. According to his daughter, Jeanne, while living there Amedeo Modigliani one night in an alcoholic rage destroyed a number of his friends paintings.
In 1908 a celebration banquet for Henri Rousseau was organized in Picasso's studio in the Bateau-Lavoir.
See also: La Ruche, in Montparnasse, Paris.

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★ Bateau Lavoir photographs