Guernica/Picasso, Spain.
Original vintage poster promoting Pablo Picasso’s Guernica at Museum del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
Guernica is one of picasso’s best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history.
Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and then at other venues around the world. The touring exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief. The painting soon became widely acclaimed, helping to bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War that took place from 1936 to 1939.
Did you know..?
In 1992, the painting was moved from the Museo del Prado to a purpose-built gallery at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, both in Madrid, along with about two dozen preparatory works. This action was controversial in Spain, since Picasso's will stated that the painting should be displayed at the Prado.
Artist: Pablo Picaso
Style: cubism
Made in Spain
Size: 100x45cm
Printed in 1983
Publisher: H. Fournier
Language: Spanish
Condition: as seen on the pictures pictures with some wrinkles.
This is not a recent issue, replica or tourist souvenir.