Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a full-length play written by American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician Steve Martin in 1993. The play features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who meet at a bar called the Lapin Agile (French: "Nimble Rabbit") in Montmartre, Paris. It is set on October 8, 1904, and both men are on the verge of disclosing amazing ideas (Einstein will publish his special theory of relativity in 1905 and Picasso will paint "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in 1907). At the Lapin Agile, they have a lengthy debate about
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,