- Le Bateau-Lavoir
Le Bateau-Lavoir was a squalid block of buildings in
Montmartre ,Paris situated at 13 Rue Ravignan (Place Emile Goudeau). The placeis famous because at the turn of the 20th century a group of outstandingartist s 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 (mainlyMontparnasse ).The name of the place means "the laundry-boat" because it resembledboats 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 inventedcubism 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
*Endre Rozsda 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 thereAmedeo 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
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La Ruche , in Montparnasse, Paris.External links
* [http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tp/72d71/ Bateau Lavoir photographs]
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