Picasso's Guernica

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La noticia de la destrucción de Guernica por las bombas de la aviación nazi y fascista desencadenó en Picasso un impulso creativo del que surgió una de las obras maestras de la pintura occidental. 

Pablo Picasso’s most famous work, the anti-war mural called Guernica, is returned to Spain under a veil of secrecy after 44 years outside the country during the Franco dictatorship. A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/34q7ffG. 

In the summer of 1951 a young art historian called John Richardson met one of the greatest painters of the modern era. Richardson was part of Picasso's circle in the South of France for the rest of the 1950s and then spent the rest of his life writing the definitive biography of ...  Show more

Sixty years ago a young art historian got to know the greatest painter in the world.John Richardson met Picasso in the South of France in 1951.Photo: AFP/Getty