Le Bateau-Lavoir in Montmatre Paris
Emile Goudeau Place, formerly known as Ravignan Place is located near the Poirer Hotel in a square lined with chestnut-trees and ornamented with a Wallace fountain. In 1899, Emile Goudeau Place an old building was converted into ateliers to accomodate ten artists. Le Bateau-Lavoir was a squalid block of buildings in Montmartre, Paris situated at 13 Rue Ravignan. 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. It was 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.
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Location: Place Emile Goudeau, Paris, France
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