Lithograph on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/colin-self-1922" aria-label="More by Colin Self" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Colin Self</a>
Picassos Guernica and Nazis
Purchased 1983
actions: expressive
adults
blood
body
diseases and conditions
figure
fine art and design, named works
head / face
history
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name of artist
Nazism - swastika
objects
pain
people
Picasso, Pablo, painting, ‘Guernica’, 1937
politics
politics and society
politics: Nazi Germany, 1933-45
screaming
social comment
society
symbols and personifications
war
wounded
paper print lithograph
Picasso’s Guernica and the Nazis
image: 188 × 311 mm
Purchased 1983
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/self-picassos-guernica-and-the-nazis-p07945" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07945</span></a> <b>Picasso's Guernica and the Nazis</b> 1968
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<br/>Lithograph with red biro 7 3/8 × 12 1/4 (188 × 311), printed by the artist at Editions Alecto, not editioned
<br/>Inscribed ‘C.S. 1968’ b.l. and ‘Picasso's Guernica and the Nazis’ and ‘Lithotrial 2 1/3’
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>The swastika badges were rubbings taken from a ring and transferred onto the stone. There are only two or three works on this theme, each with a different ‘Picasso Forgery’ drawn in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Ink'"><span>ink</span></a>, to ‘bring out one of the “whys” of his art’.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults blood body diseases and conditions figure fine art and design, named works head / face history inscriptions name of artist Nazism - swastika objects pain people Picasso, Pablo, painting, ‘Guernica’, 1937 politics politics and society politics: Nazi Germany, 1933-45 screaming social comment society symbols and personifications war wounded