La Coupole (Paris)
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| Street address | 102, boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris |
| City | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48°50′32″N 2°19′41″E / 48.842270°N 2.327943°E |
La Coupole is a famous
art deco style.[1][2] Artists of the School of Paris and intellectuals frequented the brasserie in the interwar period.[3]
The La Coupole Dance Hall, in the basement, opened on December 24, 1928 and is where musicians performed. Filiberto Rico's Rico's Créole Band (1910-1976) was the main orchestra of La Coupole, playing rumba, bolero, guaracha, samba and other baião until the 1960s.
Among the first artists and intellectuals to adopt La Coupole as their regular haunt were
Joséphine Baker, Man Ray, Georges Braque and Brassaï. Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet met there in 1928. In the 1930s, aficionados of La Coupole were Pablo Picasso, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Sonia Delaunay, André Malraux, Jacques Prévert, Marc Chagall, Édith Piaf among many others. In the 1940s and 1950s La Coupole was frequented by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Marlene Dietrich, and Ava Gardner. After the Second World War, Yves Klein dined there almost every evening and held judo
sessions on the terrace.
The bronze cast sculpture which now stands prominently in the middle of the restaurant is called La Terre [Earth] by the sculptor Louis Derbré. It was cast at the artist's foundry and unveiled in 1993. The original revolving version of La Terre (1972) is in
Clive Jackson. Adamson records also meeting the sculptor at the Galerie Genot when he was working on the reduced-size versions of La Terre.[4]
See also
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Coupole.
- ^ Tanya Gold (4 April 2015), "A cemetery with cocktails: La Coupole and the spirit of the brasserie", The Spectator
- ^ Courtney Traub (24 July 2019), "Inside La Coupole, a Montparnasse Brasserie Haunted With Artistic History", Paris Unlocked
- ^ "The Ecole de Paris". www.chiswickauctions.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
- ISBN 978-1-898565-18-5, p. 185.
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