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Guernica

Author: Pablo Picasso
Period: Cubism
Technique: Oil on canvas
Auction starts: 06/17/2025 20:14:00
Auction ends: 06/17/2025 20:16:00
Auction status: Finalized

Description:

Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. The grey, black, and white painting, on a canvas 3.49 meters (11 ft 5 in) tall and 7.76 meters (25 ft 6 in) across, portrays the suffering wrought by violence and chaos. Prominently featured in the composition are a gored horse, a bull, screaming women, a dead baby, a dismembered soldier, and flames.