
The Girls of Avignon
Five nude women stare out with their faces turned into masks, and Picasso kept the canvas rolled up in his studio for years.

Five nude women stare out with their faces turned into masks, and Picasso kept the canvas rolled up in his studio for years.

Only the face and hands are painted naturally and the rest is gold. The Nazis seized it, and a long restitution case eventually got it back.

A black silhouette plays a flute and the snakes come out of the leaves toward the music, in moonlight Rousseau invented entirely.

Zeus arrives as a stream of gold coins and ornament between her thighs, and Klimt makes no attempt to be subtle about it.

A sallow green face fills the front of the picture while behind him a woman in red picks fruit beside another man. He is imagining it.

Hot pinks and oranges laid on freely, a year before Cézanne and Picasso's Demoiselles sent Braque off toward Cubism instead.

Rivera as a student in Europe, years before the murals, still working inside the academic tradition he would later blow up.