Le Bateau-Lavoir

Le Bateau-Lavoir was a squalid block of buildings in Montmartre,

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Paris situated at 13 Rue Ravignan (Place Emile Goudeau). The place

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is famous because at the turn of the 20th century a group of outstanding

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artists lived and rented artistic studios there.

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First artists started to settle at the Bateau-Lavoir in the 1890s but

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after 1914 they started to move elsewhere (mainly Montparnasse).

Related Topics:
1914 - Montparnasse

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The name of the place means the laundry-boat because it resembled

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boats of laundry women.

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Indisputably the most famous resident of the place was Pablo Picasso

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(1904-1909). He reputedly invented cubism there and painted one of his finest works Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Related Topics:
1904 - 1909 - Cubism

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Other well-known artists who lived in the Bateau-Lavoir:

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• Pablo Gargallo
• Juan Gris
• Max Jacob
• Amedeo Modigliani
• Pierre Reverdy
• 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.

Related Topics:
Guillaume Apollinaire - Georges Braque - Henri Matisse - Jean Cocteau - Gertrude Stein - Amedeo Modigliani

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In 1908 a celebration banquet for Henri Rousseau was organized in Picasso's studio in the Bateau-Lavoir.

Related Topics:
1908 - Henri Rousseau

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See also: La Ruche, in Montparnasse, Paris.

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