Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews returns with another series of lectures on Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories. For the second installment of this six part lecture series, Áine will focus on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, by Pablo Picasso, recounting its history, as well as that of the artist and his story.

Painted in 1907 the huge canvas remained in Picasso’s studio in Paris until its debut in 1916 when it scandalized the public. Here are five sex workers from an actual brothel, modelled directly on African masks, with angular lines and flat, geometric planes with sharp edged and radically simplified faces.

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