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What was pablo picasso's inspiration for when was painting head of the sleeping women

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African Masks.

It wasn't inspired by his wife.

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Picasso paid a visit to the Trocadero's Ethnographic Museum in Paris in 1907. He saw African art there, which inspired him and led to classic paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Picasso's work is on show alongside works that influenced him and works from his own collection.

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