83 PICASSO.

Sueño y mentira de Franco.

Paris. (Paris). 1937. Folio. 2 large etched plates containing 18 scenes. Loose as issued in publisher's wrappers.

From the edition limited to 1,000 copies, with this one of 850 copies on Montval, with Picasso's stamped signature and numbered in pencil.

"This suite of 18 scenes on two plates was Picasso's protest against Franco's coup d'état. His intention had been to make postcards or tracts which would have an impact on the Spanish people. For this reason - inspired by comics and the images of Epinal - the artist chose to use a sort of comic strip as his medium. In it, he derides the adventures of the spurious caballero Franco who, instead of attacking the enemy, strikes his own horse. He fights under the banner of the flea, and prays on the alter of money. He is represented as a sort of phallic centaur sitting astride a pig, and finally as a monstrous horse vanquished by a triumphant bull." (Patrick Cramer). [Cramer 28].

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