Original Picasso Poster Guernica "Le Siecle De Picasso" 1988

Artist Pablo Picasso Year 1988 Exhibition Le Siècle de Picasso — Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Size 118 × 174 cm (46.5 × 68.5 in) Type Original vintage exhibition poster — large format Backing Freshly linen backed Condition B+ — Overall Good, corners and sides professionally restored, see pictures. This is an original large-format exhibition poster created in 1988 for Le Siècle de Picasso — a landmark retrospective held at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, dedicated to a century of Picasso's presence in the world. The image chosen to announce this exhibition is one of the most charged in the entire history of art: the anguished horse from Guernica, Picasso's 1937 masterpiece and the most powerful anti-war painting ever made. To place this image at the centre of a centenary celebration was a deliberate act — a reminder that the century of Picasso was also a century of war, and that no artist had borne witness to it more devastatingly. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) painted Guernica in response to the Nazi bombing of the Basque town of the same name on 26 April 1937 — a rehearsal for the total war that would engulf Europe two years later. Executed in grey, black and white in a matter of weeks for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition, the painting depicts the screaming horse, the fallen soldier, the mother with her dead child, the lamp bearer — a vocabulary of suffering that has never been surpassed for its moral and emotional authority. The painting remained in exile for decades, kept at MoMA in New York at Picasso's insistence until democracy was restored to Spain. It returned to Madrid in 1981, eight years before this poster was made. At 118 × 174 cm, this is a monumental piece — a poster conceived for public space, for walls, for the street, carrying one of the most recognisable images in Western art at the scale it commands. The poster has been freshly linen backed — the gold standard of vintage poster conservation — with corners and sides professionally restored, ensuring the piece is stable, flat, and ready for framing. See pictures for full condition details. A monumental piece — the most important image of the 20th century, at the scale of history, for the exhibition that celebrated a century of genius.