Compelled to strengthen the emotional impact of his work with depictions of agony and destruction, Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) painted the highly evocative work “Guernica” which he refused to allow for exhibit in Spain until the overthrow of Franco’s totalitarian regime. Painted in 1937, Guernica was an impassioned protest against the bombing of the little town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, and contains allegorical symbols of the rage and despair felt during the crisis. Defined by the Cubist style that he pioneered, the painting is part of a torrential body of work containing 20,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints

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