Sueño y Mentira de Franco (Planche II), 1937

  • Lacourière, French
  • Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881-1973
  • Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881-1973

Etching and aquatint printed in black and gray ink on cream laid paper

  • Plate: 12 1/2 × 16 5/8 inches (31.8 × 42.2 cm) Sheet: 15 1/8 × 22 1/2 inches (38.4 × 57.2 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Willis F. Woods

69.360

Stamped, with facsimile signature, lower right: Picasso

Watermark: [circular device] (Montval)

Inscribed, in plate in reverse, upper center of image: 8 janvier 1937 Inscribed, in reverse, lower right: X 9 janvier 1937 - 7 juin 37.

Mr. and Mrs. Willis F. Woods

1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Garvey, E. The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960 in Western Europe and the United States. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard College Library. Boston and Cambridge, 1961, no. 228. Wallen, Burr. Picasso Aquatints. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. St. Petersburg, Florida, 1984, no. 19 (ill.).

Pablo Picasso, Sueño y Mentira de Franco (Planche II), 1937, etching and aquatint printed in black and gray ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Willis F. Woods, 69.360.