Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso – Canvas Giclée Print

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The high-resolution print revisits the masterpiece “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907). As one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous paintings is part of the masterpiece series at Pigment Pool. The original painting evoked controversy when first exhibited. However, today it is unequivocally regarded as the first 20th-century masterpiece, a seminal detonator of the Cubism art style and the modernist art movement in general.

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Pablo PicassoCubism: One of Picasso’s greatest achievements was the co-invention of the Cubism movement in tandem with French painter Georges Braque. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” was one of the first pictures which exemplified this new art style, in which Picasso rejected the conventions of painting since the Renaissance, which involved creating an illusion of a three-dimensional space. Instead, he emphasized the flat, two-dimensional nature of the image, avoiding the use of traditional approaches such as the central perspective, foreshortening, chiaroscuro, and modelling. The Cubist way of painting disassembled figures and objects into flat snapshots, which were then laid out in a series of opaque overlapping planes. This allowed presenting an object from a multiplicity of viewpoints instead of just a single viewpoint at one particular point in time, as can be most clearly seen in later pictures such as Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937).

Where is the picture “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” today?

The original picture of “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” is on display as part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

What’s in it?

Large in scale measuring 244 x 233 centimetres, the original composition could have filled an entire wall. The painting presents a mosaic of angular and overlapping fragments of five female nudes, some of them staring provocatively at the viewer. Five women – each over two metres tall – are pressing themselves to the surface of the picture, the colour of flesh making them appear not merely nude, but starkly naked. There does not seem to be any connection between the respective figures, which heightens the drama presented. While the two women in the centre gaze daringly at the audience lifting their arms to show their breasts, the figure on the top right, another sitting at the bottom right and a further squatting figure, are covered with what appears to be animalistic masks made up of multiple views like a jigsaw.

What’s the context?

Picasso – Les Demoiselles – Facts:

Picasso’s Rose Period, which demonstrated the artists’ stylistic experiments with primitivism, was followed by his African Period in 1907, which again culminated in the Proto-Cubist picture of the artist’s masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. This picture was the result of an approach, in which Picasso focused heavily on the analysis and simplification of form. Frustrated with the theory of art as the imitation of nature – a concept, that had been mastered by the Impressionists – he sought intellectual expressionism that would allow him to portray a new reality based on the two-dimensional picture plane. Choosing an explicit theme like the group of nude females has been attributed to the goal of unfolding the redemptive power of art.

Chatter and Prattle

  • Pablo Picasso referred to his picture as “my brothel”. However, since this name seemed too straightforward for the exhibition, he accepted the light-hearted suggestion by the poet and art critic André Salmon (1881-1969) calling it “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon“. Salmon claimed to see a resemblance between Picasso’s figures and the prostitutes on Carrer d’Avinyo – Avignon Street – in Barcelona.
  • The artist initially showed the picture only to a handful of fellow artists, including Georges Braque, André Derain, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Matisse. However, some of his friends strongly criticized the painting, so that Picasso decided not to exhibit it for almost a decade. Finally, in 1916, he had it displayed at the show “Modern Art in France” at the Salon d’Antin.
  • Afterwards, the painting remained with Picasso until 1924, when he sold it to the designer Jacques Doucet for 25,000 francs. The artist had agreed on this artificially low price since Doucet allegedly promised to bequeath it to the Louvre. Yet “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” wasn’t seen openly again until the year 1938 when it was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Recommended Readings:

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Marilyn McCully et al. (2019): Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods

Victoria Charles (2019): Pablo Picasso Masterwoks

Roland Doschka et al. (2000): Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

Francoise Gilot et al. (2020): Life with Picasso

Christopher Lloyd (2018): Picasso and the Art of Drawing

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