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Picasso, Pablo
born 1881 in E - Malaga, died 1973 in F - Mougins
poster to the exhibition Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
Guernica
1956
colour offset
85 cm x 123 cm
print: Smeets Drukkerijen, Weert
strong traces of age and use, sheet cut at the borders, right and left border glued by plastic stripes by restorator, damages at the border upper right, paper darkened in places, any traces of humidity on the back also slightly visible on the front, water stains on the back, danger by mold eliminated by restorator
(see additional pictures including picture of the backside)
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catalogue Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Guernica, avec 60 études et variantes / met 60 studies en varianten,
with an introduction by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and photos by Dora Maar, unpaginated catalogue with many pictures (see additional pictures)
order no. 32435
This Picasso/Guernica-exhibition took place in Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles from 4.5. to 3.7., then in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from 14.7. to 30.9. 1956.
Here one of the few surviving copies of the exhibition in Brussels !
The last sentence in the introduction of the worth reading and seeing catalogue by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to Picasso:
"Le grand tableau 'Guernica' est sa première contribution à la défense de la paix."
catalogue raisonné:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (ed.): picasso: guernica - avec 60 études et variantes / met 60 studies en varianten bruxelles, with photos by Hugo Herdeg, Dora Maar, Museum of Modern Art New York. (Exhibition cat.) bruxelles palais des beaux arts mai - juin 1956 / amsterdam stedelijk museum juli - sept 1956 (catalogus 147), 79 p.
compare Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Werkverzeichnis der Picasso Plakate. Paris 1970, 76 Bis
compare Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Pablo Picasso. Plakate 1923-1973, Werkverzeichnis München 1981 (dtv), 87 A
Brieden, Hubert: Guernica: Controversial Painting, Whitewashed History. In: Friedrich, Julia (ed.): Picasso Shared and Divided. The Artist and His Image in East and West Germany, Cologne 2021, p.100-113
