1907 · Cubism

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

By Pablo Picasso. Picasso fractures bodies and pictorial depth into a confrontational field, opening a path toward Cubism while drawing on multiple visual traditions.

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Picasso fractures bodies and pictorial depth into a confrontational field, opening a path toward Cubism while drawing on multiple visual traditions.

ArtistPablo Picasso

Date1907

MediumOil on canvas

MovementCubism

CollectionMuseum of Modern Art, New York

Why it matters

Picasso fractures bodies and pictorial depth into a confrontational field, opening a path toward Cubism while drawing on multiple visual traditions.

See this work in context through Cubism and the Modernism period.