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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (translated into Spanish: ), a street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine. The women appear slightly menacing and are rendered with angular and
- Rubin, William. "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". MoMA, 1994.
- Rubin, William, Hélène Seckel & Judith Cousins, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", NY: Museum of Modern Art/Abrams, 1995
- Sweetman, David. "Paul Gauguin, A life". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
External links.
- "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in the MoMA Online Collection
- "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" Conserving A Modern Masterpiece
- Julia Frey, Anatomy of