Two boards, ten-eight boxes. The first work overtly political of Picasso is not an array, but a comic strip : Dream and lie of Franco (Sueño y lie of Franco).
Franco, Francisco Franco, the future dictator, who, on the 17th of July 1936, launched in Morocco his coup against the government of the second Spanish Republic and took control of part of Spain.
The civil war began. It is also a cultural war. Pablo Picasso was appointed the same year director of the national Museum of the Prado. For the republic, it is to combine the prestige interna…
