Examined closely, however, these diminutive marks emerge as palimpsests. These marks, along with the faces of the two centermost women, are overlooked in visual analyses of the painting, perhaps because they lose out in avant-garde strangeness to the visages of the other three figures or the painting’s much-vaunted collapsing of pictorial space. On the left eyebrow of the central figure in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, an arabesque of impasto marks interrupts the deliberate, basket-weave strokes of pale ochre constituting her forehead (figs. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 2, Detail of the left eye of the central figure in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907.
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