Pablo Picasso's largest painting “Guernica” (1937), limited edition reproduction on handmade paper

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Framed painting “Guernica” (1937)

Original: 1937, oil on canvas, 349.3 x 776.6 cm, Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Guernica is a detailed depiction of a gruesome, dramatic situation and was created by Picasso to be part of the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. Pablo Picasso's motivation for painting the scene in this magnificent work was the news of the German aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, from which the artist takes its name. He learned of this from dramatic photographs published in various magazines, including the French newspaper L'Humanité.

Nevertheless, neither the studies nor the finished painting contain a single allusion to a specific event, but rather a general plea against the barbarity and horrors of war. The enormous image is conceived as a giant poster, a testament to the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and a harbinger of the Second World War.

The muted colors, the intensity of each individual motif, and the way in which they are articulated are all essential to the extreme tragedy of the scene, which would become a symbol for all the devastating tragedies of modern society.

This is a high-quality and strictly limited reproduction of the image in museum quality:

5-color frequency-modulated reproduction on 260g Rives laid paper
. Limited edition of 1,000 copies.
Image size 42.2 x 92 cm (H/W).
Sheet size 67 x 98 cm (H/W).

© laieproduccions, © Succession Picasso, Paris 2017.

Framed in a silver-colored solid wood frame with a beveled passe-partout, glazed. Dimensions 72 x 120 cm (H/W).