Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 Pablo Picasso

The controversy over Picasso's most shocking painting

(Credit: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/ Aurélien Mole/ Henry Taylor Courtesy the artist)

The confrontational painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon has been both widely despised and loved, and over the decades has remained contentious. A century after it was created by Picasso, acclaimed US artist Henry Taylor reinterpreted and challenged the piece – and his version is now at the centre of a major exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris.

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) was initially met with disgust – then acclaimed (Credit: The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

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