The Café de la Rotonde is a famous café in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris , France at 105 Boulevard du Montparnasse , known for its artistic milieu and good food. In its official website, La Rotonde defines itself as a brasserie and restaurant. Located on the Place de Picasso , that also holds the sculpture of Honoré de Balzac by Auguste Rodin called Monument to Balzac at the corner of Boulevard du Montparnasse and Boulevard Raspail , it was founded by Victor Libion in 1911. Based on examples established by La Closerie des Lilas (created in 1847) and Le Dôme Café (created in 1898), La Rotonde, along with La Coupole (created in 1927) and Le Select (created in 1925), was renowned as an intellectual gathering place for notable artists and writers during the interwar period due to its open atmosphere and reasonable prices. Unlike many establishments in Montparnasse , La Rotonde has retained much of its bohemian charm and continues in operation to this day as a popular and chic spot for classic French cuisine lovers and the Parisian artistic intelligentsia.
15-655: Rotonde may refer to: Locations [ edit ] Café de la Rotonde , a cafe in Paris , France. Fontaine de la Rotonde , a fountain in Aix-en-Provence , France. Simiane-la-Rotonde , a town in France. Newspaper [ edit ] La Rotonde , a student newspaper at the University of Ottawa in Canada . Topics referred to by
30-726: A Mir Iskusstva exhibition and caused mixed reactions. While some critics praised them, the Academy of Arts rejected them. Jackovleff painted a lot of Sanguine drawings including the Shalyapin portrait . He frescoed Firsanov's mansion in Moscow , and the artistic cabaret Prival Komediantov in Petrograd . He also lectured on Women's Architect Courses and organized his own artistic movement (together with Shukhaev, Radlov and Kardovsky): St. Luke Guild of Painters (Цех Живописцев имени Святого Луки). In
45-603: A model for the designer Paul Poiret . On 6 April 2023, the outside awning was set on fire by protestors during the pension reform strikes that caused minimal long-term damage. The cafe was chosen as it's considered to be one of President Emmanuel Macron 's favourite cafes. 48°50′33″N 2°19′45″E / 48.84250°N 2.32917°E / 48.84250; 2.32917 Alexandre Jacovleff Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff or Yakovlev , Russian : Александр Евгеньевич Яковлев ; 25 June [ O.S. 13 June] 1887 – 12 May 1938)
60-477: A ten-centime cup of coffee and looked the other way when they broke the ends from a baguette in the bread basket. If an impoverished painter couldn't pay their bill, Libion would often accept a drawing, holding it until the artist could pay. As such, there were times when the café's walls were littered with a collection of artworks, which today might fill curators of the world's greatest museums with envy. When Peggy Guggenheim moved to Paris in 1920, she increased
75-449: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Caf%C3%A9 de la Rotonde La Rotonde was frequented by Pablo Picasso around the year 1914 as it was just down the street from his studio at 242 Boulevard Raspail , so he spent many days and nights there alongside his artist and poet friends that included Diego Rivera , Federico Cantú , Ilya Ehrenburg and Tsuguharu Foujita . When
90-552: The 1924 Summer Olympics . Between 1924 and 1925 he took part in an expedition to the Sahara desert and Equatorial Africa organized by Citroën ( Croisière Noire ). His African paintings were a big success and as a result Jacovleff was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1926. In 1928, Jacovleff organized a large personal exhibition in Moscow . Between 1931 and 1932, he
105-578: The English painter Nina Hamnett arrived in Montparnasse, on her first evening the smiling man at the next table at La Rotonde graciously introduced himself as " Modigliani , painter and Jew". They became good friends. Numerous reproduced paintings by Amedeo Modigliani fill the interior of the Café de la Rotonde today. In the early years, proprietor Libion allowed starving artists to sit in his café for hours, nursing
120-483: The Rotonde. No matter what café in Montparnasse you ask a taxi-driver to bring you to from the right bank of the river, they always take you to the Rotonde.” Billy Klüver 's 1997 book, A Day with Picasso , is based on a group of photographs taken at lunch on a sunny afternoon at Café de la Rotonde in 1916 by Jean Cocteau , of Pablo Picasso and Modigliani and friends; including André Salmon , Max Jacob and Pâquerette,
135-477: The popularity of La Rotonde by moving herself and her entourage across the street from Le Dome because La Rotonde allowed women to smoke on the terrace and Le Dome did not. Life in the cafe was depicted by several of the artists and writers that frequented the cafe, including Diego Rivera , Federico Cantú , Ilya Ehrenburg , and Tsuguharu Foujita , who depicted a fight in the cafe in his etching A la Rotonde of 1925. A later 1927 version, Le Café de la Rotonde ,
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165-480: The same year. He later went to Italy and Spain together with Shukhaev. There they painted their double self-portrait as Harlequin and Pierrot . Another important work of that period was Violinist painted in 1915. At that time Jacovleff attempted to integrate Renaissance art with Primitivism , particularly the Russian Lubok . In 1915, Jacovleff returned to Petrograd . The same year his works were shown at
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#1732855357809180-687: The summer of 1917, Jacovleff received a scholarship to study in the Far East. He traveled to Mongolia , China and Japan (1917–1919). At the end of the First World War he celebrated at the Italian Legation in Beijing together with the Italian chargé d'affaires Daniele Varè . Subsequently he settled in Paris and obtained French Citizenship. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at
195-538: Was a neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher . Alexandre was the son of a naval officer from Saint Petersburg , where he was born. Between 1905 and 1913 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Kardovsky. While a student he enjoyed drawing and worked for the art magazines Apollon , Satiricon , Niva , Novyi Satirikon (New Satiricon). After 1912, Jacovleff was a member of Mir Iskusstva . Jacovleff's large group portrait On Academic Dacha
210-593: Was exhibited at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö in 1912, and received praise from the critics, including Alexandre Benois . During his student days he befriended another Academy student, Vasiliy Shukhaev. They were almost inseparable, and received the nickname of The Twins . In 1913, Jackovleff received the rank of an Artist and a scholarship to study abroad for his paintings Bathing (Купание) and In Banya . He also composed his famous In The Day Shining painting
225-764: Was part of the Tableaux de Paris of 1929. Picasso portrayed two diners in the cafe in his painting In the cafe de la Rotonde in 1901; as did the Russian artist Alexandre Jacovleff aka Alexander Yevgenievich Yakovlev in the similarly titled In the Cafe de la Rotonde . Despite its title, Picasso's painting was created before the opening of La Rotonde ; its setting is another café called L'Hippodrome . Ernest Hemingway mentions La Rotonde in Chapter VI of his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) in this passage: “The taxi stopped in front of
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