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The Beehive

artists’ colony, France
Also known as: La Ruche
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The Beehive, artists’ settlement on the outskirts of the Montparnasse section of Paris, which in the early 20th century was the centre of much avant-garde activity. The Beehive housed the ramshackle living quarters and studios of many painters and sculptors, among them Marc Chagall, Fernand LĂ©ger, Robert Delaunay, Chaim Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens, Alexander Archipenko, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, and AndrĂ© Lhote. In addition, this bohemian colony attracted the poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob,...

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