Which artist painted the "Le Demoiselles D'Avignon"?

Which artist painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon? Pablo Picasso. He completed the large oil-on-canvas painting in Paris in 1907, making it one of the most important turning points in modern art.

The work shows five nude women in a Barcelona brothel, with sharply angular bodies, startling faces, and little regard for traditional perspective. Its fractured forms helped lead Picasso and Georges Braque toward Cubism, although the painting is often more precisely described as proto-Cubist.

The title can cause confusion. Picasso originally called the work Le Bordel d’Avignon, referring to Carrer d’Avinyó in Barcelona—not the French city of Avignon. Poet and critic André Salmon later gave it the less scandalous title Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The painting was not publicly exhibited until 1916, nearly a decade after it was made.

Picasso prepared the final image with hundreds of sketches and studies. Critics have discussed influences ranging from Iberian sculpture and Cézanne to African and Oceanian art, though the nature of those influences remains debated. Today, the painting belongs to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is widely regarded as a landmark in the development of twentieth-century painting.