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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Proto-Cubist oil painting by Pablo Picasso, 1907, depicting five nude figures with fragmented forms influenced by Iberian sculpture and African masks. Held at MoMA, New York.
Scholarly Significance
Anchor the Picasso/Cubism cluster with the proto-Cubist breakthrough artwork held at MoMA.
Notes
- ·Regarded as a proto-Cubist work and one of the most influential paintings of the 20th century.
- ·Picasso worked on the canvas over several months in 1907 in his Paris studio.
- ·The two right-hand figures show direct influence of African mask forms.