Unlike the fictional subjects of his predecessors, this painting depicted a real brothel on a street that Picasso often visited. He too was inspired by Cézanne's “Baigneuses” during the exhibition where he accompanied Matisse, but his new painting did not make it immediately obvious. The only similarities between “Les Baigneuses” and “Les Demoiselles” are the use of nude subjects and their grouping in space; Matisse spreads his subjects to cover all areas of the space used. It has been said that with this painting, Picasso "replaced sensual eroticism with a kind of aggressively crude pornography" (Harris & Zucker, n.d.). A major difference between "Les Baigneuses" and "Les Demoiselles" is that Picasso chose to use an interior setting, instead of the exterior setting used by Matisse and Cézanne. His use of sharp lines and deeper colors gives the piece a more mysterious, realistic (as opposed to utopian), and serious tone. What was not so obvious is that the subjects of “Demoiselles” almost seem to ignore each other. They focus on the viewer, and it seems to be their main, and perhaps only, concern at the moment. This is very different from the other two paintings, as their subjects are clearly aware of and interacting with each other.