"The Most Influential Work of Art of The Last 100 Years"

(Newsweek 2007.07)

photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d'Avignon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon in English) is a celebrated painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts five prostitutes in a brothel, in the Avignon Street of Barcelona. Picasso painted it in France, and completed it in the summer of 1907. The eye-catching painting is one of Picasso's most famous. It now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City which acquired it in 1939. (more: visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d)