Pablo Picasso's painting titled "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is one of the paintings that Rose DeWitt Bukater is hanging in her cabin in the 1997 American epic romance and disaster film "Titanic", a film that was directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.

Concerning the paintings in the film, in reality none of Picasso's paintings were ever on the Titanic. The artwork depicted in the film, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", actually sits in New York City's Museum of Modern Art.

"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is a large oil painting that was created by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (b. 1881, Málaga, Spain—d. 1973, Mougins, France) in 1907. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó, a street in Barcelona, Spain. This painting is one of Picasso's most famous example of cubism.

Art critics and others have said: "Picasso's painting ("Les Demoiselles d'Avignon) has abandoned all known form and representation of traditional art. He has used distortion of the female body and geometric forms in an innovative way, which challenge the expectation that paintings will offer idealized representations of female beauty."

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