The Dream and Lie of Franco
Artist
PABLO PICASSO, 1881-1973
DateJanuary 8,9 1937
MediumEtching and aquatint
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Arthur Dudley Emptage
Object number1982.17.2.1
DescriptionFrom MoMA website:Picasso made two prints in this format -- three rows of three scenes-- beginning January 8, 1937, that together form an eighteen-scene narrative. The Fascist general Franco is depicted as a grinning monstrous figure, devouring the innards of his own horse, which he has just killed; the next two scenes show the results of battle; and in the next two, Franco is in combat with an angry bull symbolizing Spain. The last four scenes were added on June 7; in the meantime, the Basque town of Guernica was leveled by bombs, and Picasso painted Guernica protesting that atrocity. Three of the last four scenes of this print relate to his studies for that painting.
On View
Not on viewCollections
1720-1726
mid 18th century
Late 19th century, maybe
Herbert Meyer
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