1. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

2. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and

3. Textbooks often cite Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) as the first Cubist painting

4. It is generally agreed to have begun around 1907 with Picasso’s celebrated painting Demoiselles D’Avignon which included elements of Cubist style

5. Les demoiselles de Bienfilatre; Véra; Vox populi; Deux Augures; L'ffichage céleste; Antonio; La m Les demoiselles de Bienfilatre; Véra; Vox populi; Deux Augures; L'affichage céleste; Antonie; La machine à gloire; Duke of Portland; Virginie et Paul; Le convive des dernières fêtes; A s'y méprendre; Impatience de la foule; Le secret de l'ancienne musique; Sentimentalisme; Le plus beau

6. To create the images in The Bathers, Williams drew on gestures and poses found in iconic paintings of nude women, including tableaux of Bathers by Paul Cézanne and Auguste Renoir, renderings of Venus by Giorgione and Titian, Dominique Ingres’s Odalisque and Slave, and Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon