Demoiselles

"With its hacked contours, staring interrogatory eyes, and general feeling of instability, Les Demoiselles is still a disturbing painting after three quarters of a century, a refutation of the idea that the surprise of art, like the surprise of fashion, must necessarily wear off."

May 2007 2007

The second line was that containing the word Demoiselles and, at once seeing, in front of that word, the series of all the vowels that form part of the words la chambre des, he noted the two phrases:

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

The film of this moment became widely circulated within Predica and popularized under the name Les Demoiselles de Bourges “The Damsels of Bourges”, a take-off on a well-known French movie called Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

The Power of Co-Creation Venkat Ramaswamy 2010

And if you make the mental jump from the groundbreaking "Demoiselles" (from 1907, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art) to the gallery's 1910 drawing "Mademoiselle L onie" you see the artist at the height of analytical cubism.

Why Buy a Car? Pick Up a Picasso 2010

M. Santos-Dumont made primitive parasol type monoplanes known as "Demoiselles," in which bamboo was largely used. 1909 type is seen above.

The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition 1919

M. Santos-Dumont made primitive parasol type monoplanes known as "Demoiselles," in which bamboo was largely used. 1909 type is seen above.

The Aeroplane Speaks 1917

'Demoiselles'; the vogue of the pattern was brief, owing to the difficulty of piloting the machine.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

(Les Demoiselles d'Avignon might be understood to be a progenitor of the Russian Ballet's cubist sensibility: the curve of those ballets, the colour, the sense of space, the notion of sexual freedom.)

Diaghilev: Lord of the dance Andrew O'Hagan 2010

The great "Demoiselles d'Avignon" is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as is "Ma Jolie."

Picasso comes to Richmond Blake Gopnik 2010

The Spaniard was so shocked by the work, she says, that it provoked him to create "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," his great precursor to Cubism, that same year.

On Two Coasts, Treasures Of Americans in Paris J.S. Marcus 2011