Montmartre

Montmartre is a hill in the north of Paris, France, in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank. The community on the hill is also called Montmartre.

Artists gather

In the mid-1800s artists, such as Johan Jongkind and Camille Pissarro, came to inhabit Montmartre. By the end of the century, Montmartre and its counterpart on the Left Bank, Montparnasse, became the principal artistic centers of Paris.

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1800s - Johan Jongkind - Camille Pissarro - Left Bank - Montparnasse

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Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and other impoverished artists lived and worked in a commune, a building called Le Bateau-Lavoir during the years 1904–1909.

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Pablo Picasso - Amedeo Modigliani - Commune - Le Bateau-Lavoir - 1904 - 1909

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Artist associations such as Les Nabis were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen worked in Montmartre and drew some of their inspiration from the area.

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Les Nabis - Vincent van Gogh - Pierre Brissaud - Alfred Jarry - Gen Paul - Jacques Villon - Raymond Duchamp-Villon - Henri Matisse - André Derain - Suzanne Valadon - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Edgar Degas - Maurice Utrillo - Toulouse-Lautrec - Théophile Steinlen

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The last of the bohemian Montmartre artists was Gen Paul (1895–1975), born in Montmartre and a friend of Utrillo, Paul's calligraphic expressionist lithographs, sometimes memorializing picturesque Montmartre itself, owe a lot to Raoul Dufy.

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Bohemian - Gen Paul - 1895 - 1975 - Raoul Dufy

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"La bohème", released in 1965 by Charles Aznavour a French singer of Armenian descent widely popular in France, recalls his youth spent in Montmartre. The song is a farewell to what, according to Aznavour, were the last days of Montmartre as a hub of bohemian activity.

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Charles Aznavour - Armenia

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