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Pablo Picasso<br />
Sueño y mentira de Franco (The Dream and Lie of Franco)<br />
The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 fired up Pablo Picasso’s political commitment and he expressed<br />
his anger and condemnation through his art. In recognition of his achievements on behalf of the Republican<br />
side, he was elected director of the National Museum, the Prado of Madrid, in absentia.<br />
On January 8, 1937, he embarked on two large engravings with nine scenes each, entitled Sueño y<br />
mentira de Franco. He completed the first sheet on the same day. It shows caricatures of general Francisco<br />
Franco. The second sheet, containing one caricature, two allegories on suffering Spain, and two representations<br />
of the Republican bull tackling the “Franco monster”, remained incomplete until June 7. The four<br />
sequences created in June depict the screaming woman and the mothers worried about their children. We<br />
know these motifs from Guernica, his great anti-war mural for the Paris World Fair of 1937 that was Picasso’s<br />
response to the bombardment of the small Basque town of Guernica.<br />
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