Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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What was Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" but the artist breaking up the portrait and the picture plane?
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2018
But there is much yet to come: Picasso's Iberian period, his African period, the radical inventions of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," the creation of Cubism with Georges Braques.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2018
This tableau anticipates his 1907 masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2013
The result violently recalls his early painted manifesto Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011
A half century later, Picasso admitted this: “If you look at the ears of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, you’ll recognize the ears of those sculptures!”
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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