Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is one of the most famous paintings by Pablo Picasso.
It represents five prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d’Avinyó, a street in Barcelona. Picasso did over a hundred preparatory studies and sketches before making this work, one of the most important in the early development of Cubism.
[preserved at the MoMa in New York]
☞ Do you know…
‣ That “rhombus” at the bottom that we have highlighted of a bright red is, although very small, a central element of the painting. In fact it represents the edge of a table, the one from which the painter imagines that the spectator observes women. This tells a lot about the scene, which probably takes place in a brothel where prostitutes are put on show.
‣ If you look carefully at the faces of women, you can see something of the Traditional African masks features, whose art struck much Picasso during a fortuitous visit to the Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadero.
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⇒ Date: 1907
⇒ Material: Oil painting
⇒ Dimensions: 243,9 × 233,7 cm
⇒ Site: Museum of Modern Art
