The Bateau-Lavoir is one of the most famous artists' residences in Paris, perched on the Montmartre hill since 1892, which has seen Picasso, Apollinaire, Modigliani, Matisse, Braque and Cocteau pass through its studios.

It is Max Jacob who gave it its name when he saw laundry to dry the first time he entered.

The Bateau Lavoir played an important role in the birth of modern art in Paris.

It was here that Picasso's Cubist period was born with the creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Considered as the Villa Medici of modern painting, this place was composed of about twenty workshops where life was harsh without heating.

In 1970, the place was ravaged by fire and only the facade resisted and the architect Claude Charpentier rebuilt this mythical place to preserve its history. Today you can see the window of the Bateau Lavoir on the place Emile Goudeau.