PICASSO'S WAR

On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain was bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe on behalf of Francisco Franco as he waged a bloody civil war. Twenty-four hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror - the fir st large-scale attack against civilians in modern warfare - outraged the world, and one man in particular. Pablo Picasso, an expatri ate living in Paris, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on GUERNICA, a painting many consider the greate st artwo...[Read more]