• “Guernica” gained monumental status, becoming a potent anti-war symbol and thrusting Pablo Picasso to the forefront of the Peace Movement.
  • Their was also a strong connection between artist Picasso and this beautiful species, and in several different ways.
  • Unexpectedly for everyone, and even for himself, Picasso became a symbol of the struggle of intellectuals and artists against fascism.
  • Some years later in 1949, after the end of World War II, Picasso was invited to create an image representing peace.
  • Matisse and Picasso first met at the salon of the American patroness and writer Gertrude Stein’s in the early 1900s.
  • Gift of the Estate of Mrs. George Acheson. 37.1979. © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
  • One such stroke was the legendary Pablo Picasso, an artist whose expressions spoke not only to the present but also to the aspirations of generations to come.
  • A reproduction of Dove was used as the poster for the 1949 Paris Peace Congress, which Picasso himself attended.