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Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• paintings • Twentieth Century
art
*Work
Type [link]:
• painting
*Title: Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon Title
Type: repository
*Title: Five
Female Nudes Title
Type: descriptive
*Creator
Display: Pablo Picasso (Spanish,
1881-1973)
*Role
[link]: painter [link]: Picasso,
Pablo
*Creation
Date Display: 1907 [controlled]:
• Earliest:
1907 • Latest:
1907
*Subjects
[links]: • human figures •
females • nudes • brothel
• prostitution • fruit •
tribal art • African mask •
Iberian art • Avignon (Provence, France)
Style [link]:
Cubist
Culture [link]: French
*Current
Location Display [link]: Museum
of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States)
• ID:
333.39
*Measurements:
243.84 x 236.22 cm (8 feet x 7 feet 8 inches)
[controlled]: • Value: 234.84
Unit: cm
Type: height
| • Value: 236.22
Unit: cm
Type: width
*Materials
and Techniques: oil on canvas
Material [links]:
• oil paint • canvas Technique
[links]: • painting
Description: In
this epoch-making work, which prefigured Cubism,
Picasso amalgamated the simplified iconic forms
with Cézanne's reduction of the underlying structure
of natural forms. The artist modeled several faces
on African masks and iconic Iberian forms.
Description Source
[link]: Museum
of Modern Art online. www.moma.org
(accessed 29 July 2006)
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