The Musée National Picasso-Paris Announces the Exhibition "Guernica"

Eighty years after the creation of the masterpiece, the Musée National Picasso-Paris, in association with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, dedicates an exhibition to the history of Guernica, an exceptional painting by Pablo Picasso regarded as one of his best-known works worldwide. The masterpiece has been a permanent fixture in Madrid since 1992. The exhibition will remain open from March 27 to July 29, 2018. Painted in 1937, the monumental work is a synthesis of the visual research performed by Picasso more than forty years ago, as well as a popular icon. Thanks to the loan of several sketches and "postscripts" by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the genesis of the work is presented through material involving bullfighting and minotauromachy from the 1930s as well as the arrival of the Spanish Civil War in Picasso's life. The walk through the exhibition illustrates the context in which the masterpiece was created and the impact of the bombing, on April 26, 1937, of the Basque city of Gernika. An ideal partnership with the National Archives of France allows for the exhibition of a group of posters from the Fondo de las Brigadas Internacionales.