After 1904 more artists and writers moved in, including Otto van Rees, Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre Mac Orlan, Juan Gris, André Salmon, Pablo Gargallo, Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy. Kees van Dongen and Pablo Picasso took up residence between 19. Maxime Maufra (1863–1918) was the first noted artist to take up residence in Bateau-Lavoir, around 1890. The square now has a Wallace fountain and is planted with horse chestnut trees. In 1911, it was rechristened Place Émile Goudeau for Émile Goudeau (1849–1906), a popular novelist, poet, and journalist who founded Les Hydropathes, a renowned and famous literary club. The building stands on a small cobblestone square that was known as Place Ravignan. On stormy days, it swayed and creaked, reminding people of washing-boats on the Seine River, hence the name. The building was dark and dirty, almost seeming to be scrap pile rather than a dwelling. The name "Le Bateau-Lavoir" was coined by French poet Max Jacob.
Distributed along a corridor, small rooms were linked without heating and with a single point of water. Place Émile Goudeau in the 18th arrondissement of Parisįormerly a ballroom and piano factory, Bateau Lavoir was squatted and divided into 20 small workshops in 1889.
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