Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece

by Suzanne Preston Blier

In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso's interpretation of the diversity of representations of women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478000198
• ISBN13: 9781478000198
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.9"