Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907 is the point of departure for this series of three drawings which Cuevas created for an OAS exhibit entitled Tribute to Picasso. In writing about this work Jacquelyn Barnitz noted that Cuevas rejects the formal convention of Picasso's early cubist distortion but celebrates the subject of prostitutes in a style resembling some of Picasso's preliminary sketches for painting.

The seated figure in one of the drawings is a parody of Picasso's squatting foreground figure in Les demoiselles. Two of the figures wear harlequin hats like those seen in Picasso's Blue period painting. Cuevas, as is frequently the case, includes himself among the subjects he depicts.