Bilbao Claims Guernica, Madrid Refuses the Loan: Polemics Around Picasso's Masterpiece

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VIEWS - The Guggenheim Museum wishes to exhibit the work commemorating the massacre of the Basque city. But the Reina Sofía opposes it.

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There is a new request for a loan from the famous painting that has become a symbol of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. What will Pedro Sánchez now say to the Basques when he needs his support in Parliament?

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The Guernica, by Pablo Picasso, returned to the center of the political agenda in Spain after the request of the Government of the Basque Country to move the work temporarily to Bilbao, which led to a new institutional conflict over historical memory, identity and conservation of the heritage. The Lehendakari (president of the Government of the Basque Country) Imanol Pradales formally requested the loan of the work to display it at the Guggenhei…