Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (Avignon Street) in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Three figures on the left exhibit facial features in the Iberian style
Picasso & Lump who became a loved pet and an icon of modern art. The book is alternatively known as, Lump: The Dog Who Ate a Picasso. Picasso & Lump Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey () is a book by David Douglas Duncan that features professional photographs of Pablo Picasso and his dachshund, Lump. The book, published in 2006 by Thames & Hudson Ltd, gives an insight into Picasso's later life, and Picasso - the man, not the image. The book contrasts black-and-white photos of Picasso, his wife Jacqueline and Lump with Picasso's colourful interpretations of the painting "Las Meninas" (that happen