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Dream and Lie of Franco:  (January 9, 1937)

Dream and Lie of Franco: (January 9, 1937)

1937
(Spanish, 1881–1973)
© 2006 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Baer III.106.615 (Baer addendum p. 38)
Location: not on view

Description

Picasso began working on the plate for this etching on 9 January but left it unfinished. He completed the last four frames on 7 June 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.
  • Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 458-460, fig. 2, no. 9:29
  • Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007).
    Cleveland Museum of Art (10/15/2006 - 06/03/2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (03/04/2007 - 06/03/2007); "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí. Miró, Dalí"- EXHIBITED AT CMA VENUE ONLY
  • {{cite web|title=Dream and Lie of Franco: (January 9, 1937)|url=false|author=Pablo Picasso|year=1937|access-date=23 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1973.137.4