Les demoiselles d'Avignon Ont une rose à leur chignon Et des bas de soie à fines mailles À leurs pieds mignons. Ont un ruban noir à leur cou D'où pend une croix d'or au bout, Et, tintant dans leur tirelire, Une pièce de cinq sous. En revenant de Villeneuve Elles quittent leur robe neuve S'il leur plaît de feindre l'ébat Des naïades du fleuve, Offrant douce proie au pinceau Du peintre Pablo Picasso Qui s'est, pour les surprendre nues, Caché sous un arceau.
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Text Authorship:
- by René Chalupt (1885 - 1957), "Les demoiselles d'Avignon", written 1924?, appears in Onchets, no. 12, Paris, Frazier-Soye, first published 1926 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Maurice Delage (1879 - 1961), "Les demoiselles d'Avignon", op. 14 (1924), published 1927 [ high voice and piano ], Édition Jobert [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Claude Delvincourt (1888 - 1954), "Les demoiselles d'Avignon", 1936, published 1936 [ medium voice and piano ], from Onchets, no. 5, Édition Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
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