Pablo Picasso: "Dream and Lie of Franco" plate I

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Pablo Picasso. Dream and Lie of Franco, Plate I. Reproduction on paper of Plate I from the portfolio "Dream and Lie of Franco," published by SPADEM in 1975. Dimensions without frame: 43 x 32 cm. Artwork in good condition with signs of age. Dream and Lie of Franco is a series of etchings and a prose poem written by Pablo Picasso in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The handwritten title and the text below are part of a fierce satire and propaganda attack against General Francisco Franco. Picasso used the Artwork, full of surreal and grotesque imagery, to portray Franco as a monster and raise funds for the Republican cause. The piece is contemporary with and related to Guernica, demonstrating Picasso's profound political commitment against fascism.


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