Dream and Lie of Franco

Artist Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Date1937

MediumEtching and aquatint on paper

ClassificationsVisual Works

Credit LineGift of Arthur Dudley Emptage

Object number1982.17.2.2

DescriptionPicasso 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 inthe 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.

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