About this artwork
This set of etchings (see also 1948.48.2) satirizes the murderous rule of General Francisco Franco (1892–1975) with images of violence, showing its protagonist as a monstrous beast. The figure of a weeping woman is visible in the middle-left quadrant of the sheet at right. Each of the 18 vignettes was reproduced on separate postcards, whose sale was intended to raise funds to support Spain’s anti-Fascist government. Some of the images relate to Picasso’s mural Guernica, which depicted the horrors endured by the inhabitants of a small Spanish town that was bombed by Franco’s Fascist forces in 1937.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Pablo Picasso
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Title
- The Dream and Lie of Franco (Plate I)
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1937
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Medium
- Aquatint and etching on copper in black on white wove paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper (chine collé)
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Dimensions
- Plate: 31.7 × 42.1 cm (12 1/2 × 16 5/8 in.); Sheet: 38 × 57 cm (15 × 22 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Anonymous gift
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Reference Number
- 1948.48.1
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York