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| ID: 700000104 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000104 | Record Type: Movable Work |
| Images: 1 2 | |
| Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (painting (visual work); Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973); June-July 1907; Museum of Modern Art (New York City, New York state, United ...; 333.39) | |
| Note: Picasso unveiled the monumental painting in his Paris studio after months of revision. The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothel. In Picasso’s preparatory studies for the work, the figure at the left was a man, but the artist eliminated this anecdotal detail in the final painting. The work marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women with figures composed of flat, splintered planes and faces inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space the figures inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned tabletop. These strategies would be significant in Picasso’s subsequent development of Cubism, charted in this gallery with a selection of the increasingly fragmented compositions he created in this period. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a large oil painting portraying five female nude prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó in Barcelona. The women are rendered with slightly menacing facial expressions and angular, disjointed bodies. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain. | |
| Titles: |
| Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,L,A,French-P,U,A) |
| Five Female Nudes (C,U,DE,English,U,U) |
| The Brothel of Avignon (C,U,OR,undetermined,U,U) |
| Catalog Level: item |
| painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred) |
| ..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>) |
| paintings (preferred) |
| European art |
| Creation Date: June-July 1907 |
| Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) [preferred,VP] |
| painter Picasso, Pablo (Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1881-1973) [500009666] |
| Locations: |
| Current: Museum of Modern Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500303609] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body) |
| Repository Numbers: 333.39 |
| Credit Line: Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest |
| Address Note: This work is on view on Floor 5, in Painting and Sculpture I, Gallery 2 |
| Other: Creation: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic) |
| Display Materials: oil on canvas |
| oil paint (paint) [300015050] | |
| .......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>) |
| canvas (textile material) [300014078] | |
| .......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>) |
| oil paint (paint) [300015050] | |
| .......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>) |
| canvas (textile material) [300014078] | |
| .......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>) |
| Dimensions: 243.84 x 236.22 cm (8 feet x 7 feet 8 inches) |
| French (preferred) |
| European |
| human figures (preferred) |
| women (female humans) [300025943] | |
| .....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT) |
| Avignon Street [8712243] | |
| .....(Barcelona (inhabited place), Barcelona province (province), Catalonia (autonomous community), Spain (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN) |
| nude (representation) [300189568] | |
| .....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations)) (AAT) |
| brothel [300007218] | |
| .....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, commercial buildings, service industry buildings) (AAT) |
| prostitution [300189323] | |
| .....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, <business and related functions>, business (commercial function), selling) (AAT) |
| fruit [300011868] | |
| .....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, biological components, plant components) (AAT) |
| tribal art [300343731] | |
| .....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in the visual arts>, art genres) (AAT) |
| mask (costume) [300138758] | |
| .....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), <costume by function>) (AAT) |
| African (general, continental cultures) [300015647] | |
| .....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>) (AAT) |
| Barcelona [7007426] | |
| .....(Barcelona province (province), Catalonia (autonomous community), Spain (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN) |
| Iberian (Iberian peninsula, culture and style) [300305500] | |
| .....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, European regions) (AAT) |
| prostitute [300189023] | |
| .....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in service occupations>, sex workers) (AAT) |
| Copyright: © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
| Provenance: The artist, Paris. 1907 - 1924 Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Neuilly (Paris). Purchased from Picasso in February 1924 - 1929 Madame Jacques Doucet (Jeanne Roger), Neuilly. 1929 - September 1937 Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York. Purchased from Madame Doucet in September 1937 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased from Seligmann, through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, in 1937. Transaction completed in 1939 |
| List/Hierarchical Position: |
 ..... Movable Works |
| .......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media |
| Sources and Contributors: | |
| Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | ........ [VP] |
| ........ Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 12 May 2013 | |
| ........ Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) | |
| Five Female Nudes | ........ [VP] |
| ........ Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) | |
| The Brothel of Avignon | ........ [VP] |
| ........ Arnason, History of Modern Art (1977) | |
| Subject: ....... [VP] |
| ....................... Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766 |
| Note: | |
| English | ..... [VP] |
| ..... Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) accessed 1 July 2005, https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766 | |
| ..... Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 15 May 2014 | |
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