Tag: Montparnasse Paris

PARIS IS A PARTY - A MOVEABLE FEAST THE ONE-WAY JOURNEY OF VIETNAMESE ARTISTS IN THE 30S. La Coupole, Montparnasse, Paris, between the two wars. It was in the cafés of Montparnasse – which replaced Montmartre from the beginning of the century – that the world history of art was written in those years. What ...

Around La Rotonde, Montparnasse, Paris, circa 1905.

Around La Coupole, Montparnasse, Paris, 1939. Photographed by Photographer Pierre Jahan (France, 1909-2003)

Moïse Kisling (Poland/France, 1891-1953) on left and Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) photographed by Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963), Montparnasse, Paris, 1916.

La Closerie des Lilas, Montparnasse, Paris, in the 70’s. All the Vietnamese artists used to meet there. Montparnasse, or more precisely the crossroads Montparnasse-Vavin-Raspail, was the centre of the world. All was audacious there.

La Coupole, Montparnasse, Paris, between the two wars. It was in the cafés of Montparnasse – which replaced Montmartre at the beginning of the century – that the world history of art was written in those years. What triumphed there, to an ever greater extent than spirit, was culture. A culture created by an extreme ...