His nineteen-oh-seven painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" turned the art world upside down.

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When the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) acquired Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1937 it was still a largely unknown work, although Picasso had eventually sold it to a collector in 1924.

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