Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum Label for Artist Title of Artwork New York 23 August 2004
Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Paris, June-July 1907
- MoMA, Floor 5, 503 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon marks a radical intermission from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women composed of flat, splintered planes whose faces were inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space they inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards, while a slice of melon in the still life at the bottom of the composition teeters on an upturned tabletop. Picasso unveiled the monumental painting in his Paris studio after months of revision. The Avignon of the work'southward title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothels.
Gallery characterization from 2019
This work is as uncomfortable to expect at as information technology is impossible to look abroad from. No other painting in the history of Western art so boldly, and baldly, confronts the viewer. Three of the five naked protagonists stare outward, trapping us with their gazes, just equally the picture'south complicated space, populated by bodies that simultaneously press against and recede from its surface, draws us in. Pictorial conventions are banished and idealized notions of beauty jettisoned. The two rightmost figures' masklike features are often connected to Picasso'south visit, midway through his work on the painting, to the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro in Paris—the city's showtime anthropological museum. In that location he had an epiphanic encounter with African and Oceanic art, which influenced the work'southward ferocious antinaturalism—the degree to which the depicted figures resist mimetic norms.
Picasso produced an unprecedented quantity of preparatory drawings and paintings for Demoiselles. They speak to his struggle to reinvent Western painting in his own stylistically disjunctive, spatially contradictory, aggressively confrontational terms. The title Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The women of Avignon) was given to the work around the fourth dimension of its first public exhibition. It alludes to the prostitutes of Barcelona's red-light district and foregrounds the psychosexual dimension and erotic content that conjoin with Demoiselles'due south explosive form and fuel its continued ability to shock.
Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Mod Art, 2019)
- Medium
- Oil on sail
- Dimensions
- 8' x 7' 8" (243.9 x 233.7 cm)
- Credit
- Caused through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)
- Object number
- 333.1939
- Copyright
- © 2022 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Order (ARS), New York
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
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Cubism and Abstruse Fine art
Mar 2–April xix, 1936
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Fine art in Our Fourth dimension: 10th Ceremony Exhibition: Painting, Sculpture, Prints
May 10–Sep 30, 1939
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The Museum Drove of Painting and Sculpture
Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946
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Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
Jul 2, 1946–Sep 12, 1954
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Large-Scale Modern Paintings
April 1–May 4, 1947
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Large-Scale Modern Paintings
April 1–May 4, 1947
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Works from the Museum Collection
Aug 12–Sep 21, 1952
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Oct 19, 1954–Feb six, 1955
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Drove
Oct 19, 1954–February 6, 1955
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Picasso: 12 Masterworks
Mar 15–Apr 17, 1955
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Picasso: 75th Anniversary
May 4–Sep 8, 1957
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Picasso in the Museum of Mod Art: 80th Birthday Exhibition
May xiv–Sep 18, 1962
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Fine art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
May 27, 1964
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Picasso in the Drove of The Museum of Modern Art
February 3–Apr two, 1972
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Permanent Collection
Mar 29, 1972–Apr 21, 1980
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Permanent Collection
Mar 29, 1972–Apr 21, 1980
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Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective
May 16–Sep 30, 1980
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Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective
May 16–Sep 30, 1980
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Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early on Twentieth-Centuries
October 25, 1980–January 27, 1981
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Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early on Twentieth-Centuries
Oct 25, 1980–January 27, 1981
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Masterpieces from the Collection
Mar 2, 1982–Mar i, 1983
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May 17, 1984–Aug four, 1992
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
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May 17, 1984–Aug iv, 1992
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"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modernistic
Sep 27, 1984–Jan 15, 1985
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"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Analogousness of the Tribal and the Modern
Sep 27, 1984–Jan xv, 1985
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"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modernistic
Sep 27, 1984–Jan 15, 1985
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Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism
Sep 24, 1989–Jan 16, 1990
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Selections From The Collection (1992)
Sep ix, 1992–Feb 21, 1993
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Selections From The Collection (1992)
Sep ix, 1992–Feb 21, 1993
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Special Installation: Matisse, Picasso, and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Jan 23–31, 1993
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Selections from the Drove (1993)
Mar 15–Jul 6, 1993
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Jul 1, 1993
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Jul 1, 1993
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MoMA2000, ModernStarts: People, Composing with the Effigy
Oct 7, 1999–Feb 1, 2000
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MoMA2000, ModernStarts: People, Composing with the Figure
Oct 7, 1999–Feb i, 2000
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MoMA2000, ModernStarts: People, Composing with the Figure
October 7, 1999–Feb 1, 2000
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Collection Highlights (2000)
May 25, 2000–Jan 28, 2001
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Collection Highlights (2000)
May 25, 2000–Jan 28, 2001
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Drove Highlights
May eight–10, 2002
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Drove Highlights
May 8–10, 2002
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To Exist Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Drove
Jul 3, 2002–Sep six, 2004
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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul iii, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
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Matisse Picasso
Feb thirteen–May 19, 2003
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Matisse Picasso
Feb xiii–May 19, 2003
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Matisse Picasso
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Matisse Picasso
Feb 13–May nineteen, 2003
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Matisse Picasso
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Matisse Picasso
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Painting &
Sculpture Two Nov 20, 2004–Aug v, 2015
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Painting &
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Painting &
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Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100
May ix–Aug 27, 2007
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503: Around Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Fall 2019-Fall 2021
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503: Around Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Autumn 2019-Autumn 2021
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503: Around Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Fall 2019-Fall 2021
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503: Around Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Fall 2019-Autumn 2021
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503: Picasso, Rousseau, and the Paris Advanced
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503: Picasso, Rousseau, and the Paris Advanced
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503: Picasso, Rousseau, and the Paris Avant-garde
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The artist, Paris. 1907 - 1924
Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Neuilly (Paris). Purchased from Picasso in February 1924 - 1929
Madame Jacques Doucet (Jeanne Roger), Neuilly. 1929 - September 1937
Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York. Purchased from Madame Doucet in September 1937
The Museum of Modernistic Art, New York. Purchased from Seligmann, through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, in 1937. Transaction completed in 1939
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