"Guernica," one of Pablo Picasso's most spectacular and controversial pictures, has been acquired for a two week's exhibit by the Fogg Art Museum, it was announced yesterday. The painting ...
At Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, schoolchildren visit Picasso’s iconic painting “Guernica,” which depicts death and anguish in the aftermath of the bombing of the Basque town in 1937.
How do we account for the past year, almost nine decades after 'Guernica,' when all the boundaries of horror have been pulverized?
Picasso died in 1973. He stipulated that Guernica not be shown in Spain while Franco was in power. Control of the painting’s future was given to MoMA. In 1981, an agreement between the museum ...