Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was a large oil painting painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon essentially means the Ladies of Avignon. It took Picasso seven sketches in order to get his masterpiece to perfection. Pablo at the beginning stages of sketching had been deciding whether to incorporate males or females but he settled on females. This painting portrays five naked female prostitutes in a brothel (modern day strip club).The women in the painting have masks on their face that don't match their bodies at all. Some of these women have Egyptian masks while others have African masks.I also touch upon how the African masks represent savagery to Picasso because of the French imperialism going on in West Africa. I think the
