Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a celebrated painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts five prostitutes in a brothel. Picasso painted it in France, and completed it in the summer of 1907.

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Painting - Pablo Picasso - France - 1907

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Picasso created over one hundred sketches and studies in preparation for this work, one of the most important in the early development of Cubism. Within the narrative of early modern art, it is widely held as a key work.

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Cubism - Key work

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It hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Museum of Modern Art - New York City

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:Medium: Oil on canvas

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:Original Size: 8 ft x 7 ft 8 in

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