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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2018 | Sueño y Mentira de Franco | Swann Auctions | New York | ||||
Prints & Multiples
28.5 x 39 cm (11.22 x 15.35 in)
aquatints with etching and drypoint
Numbered 688 in ink and with the ink stamped signature on the justification plate
PABLO PICASSO
Sueño y Mentira de Franco .
Portfolio with complete text and 2 aquatints with etching and drypoint (separated into 18 subjects and tipped onto paper mounts), 1939. 285x390 mm; 11 1/4x15 3/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
One of 850 numbered copies, from a total edition of 1000. Numbered 688 in ink and with the ink stamped signature on the justification plate. Original printed paper wrappers and paste board portfolio. Superb, dark impressions.
The current lot is significant in Picasso's (1881-1973) oeuvre because it is considered to be his first overtly political work. The etchings satirize General Francisco Franco's claim to represent Spanish culture and three of the images are directly related to studies for Guernica . Arguably Picasso's most famous work, Guernica (1937) served as his response to the horrific bombing on the Basque town at the behest of Franco's nationalist government by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe Condor Legion, during the Spanish Civil War. Bloch 297 and 298; Baer 615 and 616.
