For art connoisseurs Le Bateau Lavoir (the laundry boat) is a famous building in the Montmartre area of Paris. Jokingly named by poet Max Jacob who thought the shape and color of the building looked like the laundry boats docked along the Seine. Located on charming Place Emile Goudeau, the building was made up of small painting studios occupied in the very beginning of the 20th century by some of the most famous French painters such as Juan Gris, Amadeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, André Derain, Maurice Utrillo and of course, Pablo Picasso. It is in the building that Picasso painted one of his most famous paintings, Les Demoiseles d'Avignon, considered by art historians as the beginning of his Cubist period.
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Photo taken by me during my visit to Paris in May, 2006.
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