MoMA makes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon a public New York collection object
By 1939 the Museum of Modern Art in New York had made Les Demoiselles d’Avignon a public collection object. This Fact stores that access act, not the 1907 studio date. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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By 1939 the Museum of Modern Art in New York had made Les Demoiselles d’Avignon a public collection object. This Fact stores that access act, not the 1907 studio date.
Context
A museum can teach and can crown a genius brand that erases Braque. Split 1907 making, 1912 collage, and 1939 access. Appropriation remains a worsening sibling.
Pablo Picasso is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Museum-access path. High confidence on public MoMA holding.
A New York wall is not Guernica in Paris. Keep 1937.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Pablo Picasso
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.2 · verified
Complex: his canvas; MoMA’s public hanging and education.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactMoMA makes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon a public New York collection object
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 1939 · verified
A permanent public modern-art hanging increased copyable visual education around a 1907 picture without a private salon ticket.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.MoMA — Pablo Picasso artist pageMuseum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
- 2.MoMA — Les Demoiselles d’AvignonMuseum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
MoMA’s object page and artist page independently present the canvas as a public collection work.
Established: MoMA public Demoiselles. Not established: that 1939 cancelled 1944 PCF, or that tickets are a literacy census.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorPablo Picasso
- contributed toFactMoMA makes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon a public New York collection object
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). MoMA makes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon a public New York collection object. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pic-moma-demoiselles
https://factrail.ai/facts/pic-moma-demoiselles
Accessed 17 October 2026.
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