# MoMA makes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon a public New York collection object

Date: 1939

## The fact

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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

MoMA’s object page and artist page independently present the canvas as a public collection work.

Official or archival record: MoMA — Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766; Museum of Modern Art).

## Significance

Museum-access path. High confidence on public MoMA holding.

A New York wall is not Guernica in Paris. Keep 1937.

## What is established and what is not

Established: MoMA public Demoiselles. Not established: that 1939 cancelled 1944 PCF, or that tickets are a literacy census.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Pablo Picasso: https://factrail.ai/people/pablo-picasso

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.moma.org/artists/4609
- https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pic-moma-demoiselles