PABLO PICASSO (SPANISH 1881-1973)
Sueño y Mentira de Franco, 1937 (Bloch 297-298; BA 615-616)
each stamped with the signature (lower right) and numbered in pencil 473/850 (lower left)
on Montval laid paper, with full margins
each: etching and aquatint
each: plate size: 31 x 42 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/2 in)
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Dream and Lie of Franco is a set of two prints (plates I and plate II) printed by Lacourière and published by the artist in Paris, this example without the text and the portfolio.

Picasso began this pair of prints in January 1937. Each is subdivided into three rows of three scenes that together form a series of 18 cartoon-like vignettes printed from two plates. Since Picasso worked on the images from left to right, the etched versions (printed in reverse) read from right to left. The print contains the image of the Weeping woman, a motif which Picasso subsequently incorporated into his monumental oil Guernica completed the same year. The last four scenes were added on 7 June 1937, six weeks after the Basque town of Guernica had been destroyed by bombs.

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