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Picasso in War and in Peace, at the Gagosian Gallery. Adolf Hitler and his entourage visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 23, 1940, following the occupation of France by the Nazis.
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Skeptical collectors loan prized paintings to a country more in the news for civil strife than art appreciation ...
Picasso: Peace and Freedom - presented at Tate Liverpool from 21 May to 30 August 2010 includes 150 artworks that reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political ...
Yet through all of this, Picasso was back in Paris, mired in personal turmoil and emotionally detached from the war. He was still in the grips of a bitter and drawn-out legal battle with his ...
So when the Peace Movement appeared, essentially as a front for Soviet foreign policy in the Cold War, Picasso was naturally approached for an emblem. On the eve of the 1949 Paris Peace Conference ...
Great artists recognize the charm of great cities. Picasso, the matador of 20th-century art, once met the Syrenka – Warsaw’s 14th-century mermaid. The child of this affair was born in 1948 in the Koło ...
The University of Washington Tacoma now has an original Picasso drawing hanging in its library, courtesy of Tacoma peace activist the Rev. Bill “Bix” Bichsel.
Picasso’s Guernica tapestry, a replica of his famous painting, has been rehung outside the United Nations Security Council Chamber in New York, after undergoing routine conservation led by the ...