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"tombstone": "Dream and Lie of Franco I: (January 8, 1937), 1937. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973), Roger Lacouri\u00e8re (French, 1892\u20131966). Etching, sugar-lift aquatint, and chine coll\u00e9 on wove paper; image: 31 x 41.8 cm (12 3/16 x 16 7/16 in.); plate: 31.5 x 42.2 cm (12 3/8 x 16 5/8 in.); sheet: 37.8 x 57 cm (14 7/8 x 22 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1973.137.5. \u00a9 2006 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Dream and Lie of Franco I: (January 8, 1937)",
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"inscription": "Signed, lower right margin, in graphite: Picasso",
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"inscription": "Inscribed, upper center, in plate, reversed: 8 janvier 1937; lower left margin, in graphite: 142/150",
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"id": 206339,
"title": "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaud\u00ed, Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed (1868-1939)",
"description": "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaud\u00ed, Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007).",
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"title": "Picasso and Paper",
"description": "Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).",
"opening_date": "2024-12-08T05:00:00"
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"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, Gaud\u00ed. Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed\", fig. 1 (cat. 9:28), p. 459, repr. 459- EXHIBITED AT CMA VENUE ONLY.",
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"did_you_know": "General Francisco Franco is recognizable by his distinctive mustache.",
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"description": "This two-page, viciously satirical response to the Spanish civil war is among the most politically motivated works in Picasso\u2019s career. The prints were sold in a limited edition of 1,000 copies at the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris Universal Exposition to raise money for the Spanish refugee relief campaign. Since the printing process reversed the images, the frames should be read from the upper right to the lower left. Here Picasso portrayed General Francisco Franco as a deformed monster, crusading in a ship, smashing art, disguising himself as a woman, praying, killing, and creating overall havoc and mayhem.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1973.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31-78.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
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"citation": "Robinson, William H., Jordi Falga\u0300s, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi\u0301, Miro\u0301, Dali\u0301. [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. 1, no. 9:28",
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"catalogue_raisonne": "Baer III.106. 615 (Baer addendum p. 38); Bloch 297; Goeppert 28",
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"biography": "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.",
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