Pablo Picasso's largest painting "Guernica" (1937), limited reproduction on letters

Image "Guernica" (1937), framed

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

Guernica is a detailed representation of a cruel, dramatic situation and was created by Picasso to be part of the Spanish pavilion at the world exhibition in Paris in 1937. Pablo PicassoS Motivation to paint the scene in this great work was the news of the German air bombing of the eponymous Basque city. The artist took note of this on dramatic photographs published in various magazines, including the French newspaper L'Humanité.

Nevertheless, neither the studies nor the finished image contain a single allusion to a certain event, but a general plea against barbarism and the horrors of war. The huge picture is designed as a huge poster, testimony to the horror of the Spanish civil war and harbinger of the Second World War.

The steamed colors, the intensity of each motif and the way they are articulated are all essentially for the extreme tragedy of the scene, which should become a symbol for all devastating tragedies of modern society.

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

5-colored frequency-modulated reproduction on 260g rives letters
limited edition 1,000 copies.
Motif size 42.2 x 92 cm (h/b).
Blatt format 67 x 98 cm (h/b).

Framed in a silver -colored solid wood frame with a slanted cut partout, glazed. Format 72 x 120 cm (h/b).

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Further details on this memorable work: In January 1937, the government of the Spanish Republic asked the compatriot Picasso, who has been living in Paris for more than three decades, for a contribution to the Spanish pavilion of the world exhibition, which was to take place in Paris this year. The Spanish civil war broke out half a year earlier. After a few preliminary studies, Picasso finally got to work in May. Something decisive had now happened: On April 30, 1937, German fighter planes destroyed the small town of Guernica and killed more than 1,600 people. Picasso therefore chose a completely new approach: his contribution should be a monumental painting that represents the horrors of war in hard black and white contrasts. "Guernica", with 3.49 x 7.77 m the largest painting in Picasso, is as contemporary as a visionary: Guernica's bombing may have been his occasion, today the picture acts far beyond as a bitter advance of the war of the 20th century and as an indictment of the war. "Guernica" gained symbolic strength and was exhibited in many places until it found its place in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Following Picasso's instruction, it only came to Spain after the Franco dictatorship ended - it has been in Madrid since 1981. Picasso, on the other hand, has never entered Spanish soil again.

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