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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2021 | Guernica | 43 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | |||
Prints & Multiples
21 x 30 cm (8.27 x 11.81 in)
Aquatint etching
Signed
PABLO PICASSO
(Málaga, Spain, 1881 - Moulins, France, 1973)
Guernica
Signed
Aquatint etching 43 / 150
Provenance: Cráneo Rojo Collection
Published in: "Zervos", volume 9, page 7. Ed. Polígrafa, year 1934.
ANGUERA, ORIOL.Guernica al desnudoGuernica was born to form part of the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exposition of Paris, in 1937. The reason that impelled Pablo Picasso to make the scene represented in this great painting was the news of the bombings carried out by the German air force on the Basque town that gives its name to the work, known by the artist through the dramatic photographs published, among other newspapers, by the French newspaper L"Humanité. However, both the sketches and the painting do not contain any allusion to specific events, but rather constitute a generic statement against the barbarity and terror of war. Conceived as a gigantic poster, the large canvas is a testimony to the horror of the Spanish Civil War, as well as a premonition of what was to happen in the Second World War. The chromatic sobriety, the intensity of each and every one of the motifs, and the articulation of these same motifs, determine the extremely tragic character of the scene, which was to become the emblem of the heartbreaking conflicts of today"s society.
Source consulted: official Museo Reina Sofía website www.museoreinasofia.es
8.6 x 19 cm area of the engraving
21 x 30 cm paper dimensions
