Pablo Picasso the premier French art dealers of the 20th century. He was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubism that they jointly developed. Kahnweiler promoted burgeoning artists such as André Derain, Kees van Dongen, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Maurice de Vlaminck and several others who had come from all over the globe to live and work in Montparnasse at the time. Picasso's African-influenced Period (1907–1909) begins with his painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". Picasso painted this composition in a style inspired by Iberian sculpture, but repainted the faces of the two figures on the right after being
Picasso's African Period and reworked in July of that year), especially in the treatment of the two figures on the right side of the composition. Although "Les Demoiselles" is seen as a proto-cubist work, Picasso continued to develop a style derived from African art before beginning the analytic cubism phase of his painting in 1910. Other works of Picasso's African Period include the "Bust of a Woman" (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); "Mother and Child" (Summer 1907, in the Musée Picasso, Paris); "Nude with Raised Arms" (1907, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and "Three Women" (Summer 1908, in the Hermitage Museum,