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Dream and Lie of Franco I: (January 8, 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: 31 x 41.8 cm (12 3/16 x 16 7/16 in.); Plate: 31.5 x 42.2 cm (12 3/8 x 16 5/8 in.); Sheet: 37.8 x 57 cm (14 7/8 x 22 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1973.137.5
Catalogue raisonné
Baer III.106. 615 (Baer addendum p. 38); Bloch 297; Goeppert 28
State
IIBd (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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General Francisco Franco is recognizable by his distinctive mustache.

Description

This two-page, viciously satirical response to the Spanish civil war is among the most politically motivated works in Picasso’s career. The prints were sold in a limited edition of 1,000 copies at the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris Universal Exposition to raise money for the Spanish refugee relief campaign. Since the printing process reversed the images, the frames should be read from the upper right to the lower left. Here Picasso portrayed General Francisco Franco as a deformed monster, crusading in a ship, smashing art, disguising himself as a woman, praying, killing, and creating overall havoc and mayhem.
Horizontally-oriented print with three rows of three rectangles, each rectangle depicting scenes of a highly abstracted figure with striped protrusions and a moustache outlined in black and colored in grey. In the different scenes, the figure rides different animals, is mauled by a bull, and switches out hats, though they primarily wear a three-point crown.

Dream and Lie of Franco I: (January 8, 1937)

1937

Pablo Picasso, Roger Lacourière

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

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