Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

[ley duh-mwah-zel da-vee-nyawn]

noun

1. a painting (1907) by Pablo Picasso.

Example Sentences

I saw that one of the lithographs uses Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”

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The mural, Johnson said, loosely references Picasso's 1907 painting, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon.

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It may not lead to great, revolutionary art, but at the end of a long day, when you kick off your shoes and sink down into the sofa, you may not be in the mood for “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” or a stuffed goat with a tire around its middle.

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In the parade of projected images, it was the shocking flash of pure color that sped past as the course made its way to the more demanding rigors and longer shelf lives of Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Cubism.

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Georges Braque, in 1907, looked at his Spanish friend’s new painting, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” and felt “as if someone had drunk kerosene to spit fire.”

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