id: 147390
accession number: 1973.137.4
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.137.4
updated: 2025-04-25 16:45:37.760000
Dream and Lie of Franco II: January 9, 1937, 1937. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Roger Lacourière (French, 1892–1966). Etching, sugar-lift aquatint, and chine collé on wove paper; image: 30.5 x 41.5 cm (12 x 16 5/16 in.); plate: 31.6 x 42.1 cm (12 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.); sheet: 38 x 57 cm (14 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1973.137.4. © 2006 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Dream and Lie of Franco II: January 9, 1937
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creation date: 1937
creation date earliest: 1937
creation date latest: 1937
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creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
copyright: © 2006 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: etching, sugar-lift aquatint, and chine collé on wove paper
department: Prints
collection: PR - Etching
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Baer III.108.616 (Baer addendum p. 38); Bloch 298; Goeppert 28
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CREATORS
* Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world.
* Roger Lacourière (French, 1892–1966) - printer
Intaglio printer and publisher
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measurements: Image: 30.5 x 41.5 cm (12 x 16 5/16 in.); Plate: 31.6 x 42.1 cm (12 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 38 x 57 cm (14 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
state of the work: VBd (Baer)
edition of the work: 142/150
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inscriptions:
inscription: Signed, lower right margin, in graphite: Picasso
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remark:
inscription: Inscribed, upper center, in plate, reversed: 8 janvier 1937; lower left, in plate, reversed: 9 janvier 1937 - 7 juin 37; lower left margin, in graphite: 142/150
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939)
opening date: 2006-10-15T00:00:00
Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007).
title: Picasso and Paper
opening date: 2024-12-08T05:00:00
Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cleveland Museum of Art (10/15/2006 - 06/03/2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (03/04/2007 - 06/03/2007); "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí. Miró, Dalí"- EXHIBITED AT CMA VENUE ONLY', 'opening_date': '2006-10-15T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31-78.
page number: P. 76, #109.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513
Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 458-460, fig. 2, no. 9:29
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