Le Bateau-Lavoir

About Le Bateau-Lavoir

Le Bateau-Lavoir is a historic artists’ residence at 13 place Émile-Goudeau in Montmartre’s 18th arrondissement. The building is associated with Pablo Picasso and a wider circle of artists and writers who lived or gathered there in the early twentieth century, including Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brâncuși, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob.

The original workshops were largely destroyed by fire in May 1970. A new building was constructed on the site in 1978: its façade facing the square reproduces the earlier frontage, while the rear building contains 25 artists’ studios. The surviving historic part has been protected as a French monument historique since 31 May 1965.

This is a working, privately owned artists’ site rather than a conventional museum. Paris’s tourism office states that access is by appointment only. The Atelier Rozsda, located within the Bateau-Lavoir, describes entry through number 13, across the interior courtyard, and notes that its studio preserves the place’s artistic continuity.

Practical details

Website

https://museedemontmartre.fr/le-bateau-lavoir/

Full address

13, 13bis place Émile-Goudeau, 75018 Paris, France

Sources

• museedemontmartre.fr
• parisjetaime.com
• pop.culture.gouv.fr
• www.rozsda.com
• museedemontmartre.fr
• pop.culture.gouv.fr

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