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Bateau-Lavoir Review
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Bateau-Lavoir
Wash-barge
Houses / Mansions,
Montmartre
Fodor's Review:
Montmartre poet Max Jacob coined the name for the original building here, which reminded him of the laundry boats that used to float in the Seine. He joked that the warren of paint-splattered artists' studios needed a good hosing down. (Wishful thinking, since the building only had one water tap.) It was in the original Bateau-Lavoir that, early in the 20th century, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris made their first bold stabs at Cubism; Picasso painted the groundbreaking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon here in 1906-07. The experimental work didn't meet with complete acceptance, even in liberal Montmartre. Writer Roland Dorgèles, in teasing protest against the Bateau-Lavoir team, once tied a loaded paintbrush to the tail of a donkey belonging to the Lapin Agile cabaret and sold the resulting oeuvre for 400 francs. But poet Guillaume Apollinaire, also on board the Bateau, set the seal on the movement's historical importance by writing The Painters of Cubism in 1913. The replacement building also contains art studios and is quite modest; a window in the front details the site's history.
INFO
- Address: 13 pl. Emile-Goudeau, Montmartre, Paris
- Metro: Abbesses.
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