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Maker(s):Picasso, Pablo; Lacourière, Roger (printed by)
Culture:Spanish (1881 - 1973)
Title:Sueño y Mentira de Franco II (Dream and Lie of Franco, Plate II)
Date Made:1937
Type:print
Materials:etching and aquatint on Montval laid paper
Place Made:France; Paris
Measurements:plate: 12 7/16 in x 16 5/8 in; 31.59125 cm x 42.2275 cm; sheet: 15 5/16 in x 22 5/8 in; 38.89375 cm x 57.4675 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signature stamped on lower right: Picasso [underlined], edition number on lower left in pencil: H. C. VI / XVII w (?), watermark on lower left: [watermark]
Accession Number:  SC 1977.32.202b
Credit Line:Gift of Priscilla Paine Van der Poel, class of 1928
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
nine separate scenes (arranged in three rows and three columns), depicting an polyp headed monster represeting Franco devouring the entrails of a horse (top right), the body of a woman laying on the ground beneath a tree (top center), a horse laying on the ground cradling the body of a man (top left), the polyp-headed monster facing the head of a bull (center right), the bull attacking the polyp-headed monster which has its stomach open and its entrails spilling out (center); the head and upraised arms of a wailing woman (center left), a wailing woman holding the body of a child (lower right), two intertwined heads in profile with closed eyes (lower center), and several abstract, screaming figures with arms raised as an arrow pierces the neck of a woman on the left (bottom left)

Subjects:
Animals; Etching; figures (representations); Aquatint

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