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.
	In 1892, Maxime Maufra came back to Bretagne, and he was the first to live in this residence, called « Maison Trappeur ». Picasso stayed from 1904 to 1909 and kept an atelier until 1912. In 1904, he engraved his famous « Repas Frugal » he developed his pink period by going sketching jugglers in Medrano circus with his girl friend Fernande Olivier. In autumn 1907 he made his best friends discover Les Demoiselles d’Avignon masterpiece of the cubism evolution.
Mac Orlan, André Salmon and Max Jacob occupied an atelier in the basement. Van Dongen Juan Gris Herbin Freundlich and Modigliani came to live in Ravignan Place. When artists couldn’t pay, they moved somewhere else. Juan Gris arrived in 1906 and as well as Guillaume Apollinaire he assisted in the birth of cubism. Apollinaire published some articles supporting the paintings of his friends. After the war in 1914, every resident took their own artistic path. A page was turned. Demolished in May of 1970 , by a fire, « Bateau-Lavoir » was rebuilt by the architect Claude Charpentier, and today is occupied by foreign artists
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Amédéo Modigliani (1884-1920) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)