4. Le Goûter (Tea Time) (1911)
“When this painting was first shown at the 1911 Salon d’Automne in Paris, the prominent art critic André Salmon dubbed it The Mona Lisa of Cubism.” If you had noticed that we didn’t mention Jean Metzinger before, and felt that leaving him out of the list, and not even mentioning him was wrong, considering that in the beginnings of Cubism, he was actually more famous Cubist than the Picasso and Braque, well we tricked you – Tea Time gets it’s well-deserved place on the list of 10 Most Famous Cubist Paintings.
3. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)
Shocking and deemed immoral at the time, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is effectively the fire-starter of Cubism and the extinguisher of the period of Fauvism. In this Proto-Cubist work Picasso abandoned perspective, used two-dimensional picture plane broken up into geometric shards. This Picasso’s painting was a great inspiration for Georges Braque, which led to their collaboration, and formation of the Cubism.
