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 fasion, must necessarily wear off. No painting ever looked more convulsive.
+++Robert Hughes, art critic+++
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon), Pablo Picasso, 1907, oil on canvas
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