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Guernica, 85 years on
JENNY FARRELL examines the detailed symbolism within Picasso's iconic anti-war and anti-fascist painting

THERE are a handful of pictures that may be said to be almost universally known. They include Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Picasso’s Guernica. The last was painted eight five years ago this month.

On April 26, 1937, the small Basque town of Guernica was annihilated by German bombers. 

The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, long based in France, heard of this act of terror on April 28 and began initial sketches in response to this atrocity on May 1. It became the painting Guernica.

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