1907, Pablo Picasso, Bust of a Woman -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This Bust of a Woman belongs to the numerous studies on canvas and paper carried out by Pablo Picasso, in the first half of 1907, for the production of Demoiselles d'Avignon (New York, The Museum of Modern Art). This manifesto work, at the origin of Cubism, proved to be a complex undertaking calling into question the canons of Western art inherited from Antiquity and shattering the perspective established since the Renaissance. To tradition, Picasso opposed "the art of the Negroes", which caused a significant shock, including in the painter's circle. It was André Breton who advised the fashion designer and patron Jacques Doucet to buy the painting, which he did in December 1924. Breton wrote to him immediately, evoking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as "an intense projection of this modern ideal that we only manage to grasp in fragments".
1907, Pablo Picasso, Bust of a Woman -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This Bust of a Woman belongs to the numerous studies on canvas and paper carried out by Pablo Picasso, in the first half of 1907, for the production of Demoiselles d'Avignon (New York, The Museum of Modern Art). This manifesto work, at the origin of Cubism, proved to be a complex undertaking calling into question the canons of Western art inherited from Antiquity and shattering the perspective established since the Renaissance. To tradition, Picasso opposed "the art of the Negroes", which caused a significant shock, including in the painter's circle. It was André Breton who advised the fashion designer and patron Jacques Doucet to buy the painting, which he did in December 1924. Breton wrote to him immediately, evoking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as "an intense projection of this modern ideal that we only manage to grasp in fragments".