
Pablo Picasso
The Studio
1928
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Pablo Picasso
1937
In 1937 Pablo Picasso designed this work, in two parts, to express his outrage against the senselessness and horror of war. The individual images were intended be mass produced as postcards, and were later published in the Parisian journal Cahiers d’Art along with poetry by the artist voicing his grief over Guernica, the Basque town bombed by the Nazis in the same year.
Printed left to right, the etchings read right to left and form a narrative scene. The works satirize the Fascist General Francisco Franco, here depicted as a mad, mythical, and monstrous figure. In the top row, on the left, he destroys Spain’s classical sculpture; further down he is in combat with a bull representing Spain.
On view
Artist | Pablo Picasso |
Original Title | Sueño y mentira de Franco |
Date | 1937 |
Medium | Aquatint |
Dimensions | (one of) two parts, each 38.2 x 54.5 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 4a |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Work on paper |
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Pablo Picasso
1928
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Pablo Picasso
1939
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Pablo Picasso
1937
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Pablo Picasso
1911
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