Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso · Paris, June-July 1907

Before you is Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted in Paris in the summer of nineteen oh seven. It appalled even Picasso's friends, and he rolled it up and kept it in the studio — the public did not see it until nineteen sixteen. Most of what people mean by modern painting starts about here.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 8' x 7' 8" (243.9 x 233.7 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 502: Two Nudes

More by Pablo Picasso here: She-Goat, Goat Skull and Bottle, Boy Leading a Horse, Two Nudes, Woman Plaiting Her Hair, Repose