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Dream and Lie of Franco II: January 9, 1937

1937

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
printer

Roger Lacourière

(French, 1892–1966)
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Culture
Spain, 20th century
Medium
etching, sugar-lift aquatint, and chine collé on wove paper
Measurements
Image: 30.5 x 41.5 cm (12 x 16 5/16 in.); Plate: 31.6 x 42.1 cm (12 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 38 x 57 cm (14 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1973.137.4
Catalogue raisonné
Baer III.108.616 (Baer addendum p. 38); Bloch 298; Goeppert 28
State
VBd (Baer)
Edition
142/150
Impression
142
Copyright
© 2006 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Depicting the violence and chaos of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), this print was one of Picasso's first overtly political works.

Description

Picasso began working on the plate for this etching on January 9 but left it unfinished. He completed the last four frames on June 7 using imagery related to his painting Guernica, including a weeping woman and a mother running from a burning building with a dead child in her arms.
Horizontally-oriented print with three rows of three rectangles, each rectangle depicting abstracted scenes alternatively featuring a highly abstracted figure with striped protrusions and a moustache outlined in black and colored in grey or the wavy outline of a long-necked and long wiry-haired person, often looking up with their mouth open as if wailing. Sometimes this person is also depicted holding the limp outline of a baby.

Dream and Lie of Franco II: January 9, 1937

1937

Pablo Picasso, Roger Lacourière

(Spanish, 1881–1973), (French, 1892–1966)
Spain, 20th century

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