d'Avignon

The exhibition comprises 60 early works by the three Spanish artists, including sketches by Picasso, among them those for his revolutionary 1907 painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."

Rebels With a Cause: How Three Artists Changed the World Nathania Zevi 2011

It ends on a high note, with works by the three artists that demonstrate the influence of Cahier 7, Picasso's 1907 sketchbook for "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," in which he struggled to create a new pictorial language straddling two centuries and the traditions of African and classical art.

Rebels With a Cause: How Three Artists Changed the World Nathania Zevi 2011

Visiting the Museum of Modern Art recently, I came upon a docent explaining "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" to a tour group and listened in, intrigued.

The Man Who Taught Us to See Eric Gibson 2011

We watch him transform the implications of Paul Cézanne's hard-won, carefully adjusted touches into an evocative language of planes, strokes and angles in landscapes, figure studies, heads, a knock-out still life of a chocolate pot with the presence of one of the Demoiselles d'Avignon, and a pair of stunning watercolors of bathers in a forest.

Portrait of a Restless Artist as a Young Man Karen Wilkin 2011

There follows a compelling suite of five of Picasso's sharp, orange watercolor sketches for a woman's almond-shaped, huge-eyed head—plus a larger version in oil—which was to turn up later that year atop one of his Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Souvenirs From Paris David Littlejohn 2011

An example was "The Philosophical Brothel," a two-part article on Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" 1907 that Steinberg published in ARTnews magazine in the fall of 1972.

The Man Who Taught Us to See Eric Gibson 2011

(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 show will make a stop in Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Blake Gopnik 2010

The best painting in the abstract realm is "Figures in a Garden" 2010, whose abstracted female forms crowd a vague, fictive space, like Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," painted a century ago.

A 'dark, twisted fantasy' revealed 2011

The deployment of generous ovals and a bowl of salad even hints at Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" — which Mr. Caulfield parodied, by imagining the five nudes seen from the back, in a late print included in the collection.

Channeling American Abstraction Karen Wilkin 2010