Few would disagree with history's verdict that Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists ever. And no painting has earned him more acclaim than Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, his iconoclastic Cubist study of five naked prostitutes from a Barcelona brothel.For many, it epitomizes what made Picasso so special: his revolutionary painting style and shockingly radical representation of the female form.But are his adoring fans also aware that while he was working on Les Demoiselles, Picasso and his longtime mistress Fernande Olivier, briefly adopted a 13-year-old girl named Raymonde from a Paris orphanage who he sketched spreading her legs?
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