Paul Sordes (9 February 1877 – 20 May 1937) was a French

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from Paris and set designer who was an original member of '' Les Apaches'', a group of artists in early 20th-century Paris whose most famous member was

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. It was at Sordes' studio home at 39 rue Dulong above

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that the group regularly met on Saturdays. In fact, the first meeting of the group occurred at his studio in either June 1902 or May 1903. Around 1900,

Tristan Klingsor Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots, Oise department, 8 August 1874; died Nogent-sur-Marne, 3 August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art critic, best known for his artistic associat ...

first met Sordes at the

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in Paris, where he was impressed by Sordes' drawings and watercolors. Klingsor called him ''une sorte de Ravel de la palette'' in an obituary, and Ravel dedicated ''Une barque sur l'océan'' from the piano suite ''

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'' to him. His brother Charles Sordes was also a member of ''Les Apaches''.

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