In which New York museum is Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' housed?

In which New York museum is Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” housed? It is housed at the Museum of Modern Art, usually called MoMA.

Picasso painted the monumental oil canvas in 1907. Its five nude figures, fractured forms, and radically compressed space broke sharply with conventional Renaissance perspective. The women represent figures from a Barcelona street associated with prostitution, although Picasso originally used a different working title before the present one became established.

The painting was not immediately shown to the public. Picasso kept it largely private for years, and it first attracted broad attention after being exhibited in 1916. MoMA acquired it through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, and it remains one of the museum’s defining works.

A common mix-up is to choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art because it is New York’s encyclopedic art museum. The Met has important Picasso holdings, but “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” belongs to MoMA’s collection.