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Pablo Picasso "Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon" 1907 Museum of Modern Art, New York "Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon," which is principally a crucifixion composition, is another of Picasso's most celebrated paintings, which was created from Picasso's memory of Barcelona prostitutes standing in the entrance to a brothel on the carrera d'Aviyo and was met with shock and discomfort by his contemporaries. Picasso was heavily influenced by an exhibition of African art shown at the Trocadero and repainted the faces of the outer forms. Like many of the other artworks, it shows how Picasso was preoccupied throughout his life with reworking the same handful of structures, themes and motifs. In this case, the central figures of each picture are suggestive of crucifixion in addition the right hand figures in each emerge or appear to have emerged from behind a curtain. This is a very brave painting as Picasso had become relatively successful, yet he abandoned this to...

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