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
Crucifixion, seen from the Cross Crucifixion, seen from the Cross The Crucifixion, seen from the Cross is a c. 1890 watercolor painting by the French painter James Tissot. The work is unusual for its portrayal of the site, the women witnesses, and bystanders from the perspective of Jesus on the cross, rather than featuring Him as the center of the work; His figure is nearly not shown (His feet can be seen at the bottom of the picture). It is part of the series "The Life of Jesus Christ", a series of 350 watercolors of events from the Gospels completed by Tissot. He prepared for