Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is that revolutionary 1907 painting of five figures, where Picasso shattered form using Iberian and African masks—he saw examples at the Trocadéro Museum. He kept it rolled up not just because it shocked his circle, but because it was a private, seismic breakthrough he wasn't ready to fully expose. My own digging through his sketchbooks shows he was still wrestling with its implications, treating it less as a finished masterpiece and more as a raw, personal quarry for ideas.
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