US EditionMadrid ex-mayor's family regains art lost to Franco regime
- On Thursday, the Spanish government handed back seven artworks to the family of Pedro Rico, who served twice as Madrid's mayor, at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
- Pedro Rico lost the paintings while fleeing Francisco Franco's 1936 uprising, and the return follows Spain's efforts to confront Franco's legacy under Pedro Sanchez's government.
- The paintings, created by three Spanish artists, were restituted as part of a broader cultural asset recovery accelerated by the 2022 democratic memory law.
- At the ceremony, Paquita Rico expressed that recovering the items served as a way to honor her grandfather’s legacy, while Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun described the restitutions as an act of reparation.
- The restitution highlights ongoing divisions over the law, with the right-wing promising to repeal it and the government continuing to prioritize recognition of dictatorship victims.
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MADRID - Spain on Thursday returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized for their protection during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Madrid ex-mayor's family regains art lost to Franco regime
The Spanish government on Thursday returned seven paintings to the descendants of an ex-Madrid mayor who lost them fleeing Francisco Franco's uprising as the country grapples with the dictator's legacy 50 years after his death.
The Ministry of Culture Returns Seven Works Seized During the Civil War to Their Legitimate Owners
On Thursday, the Ministry of Culture returned seven works seized during the Civil War, almost 87 years ago, to the family of its owner, the first Republican mayor of Madrid, Pedro Rico. Two of them—Scene of majos and celestials and Assault on the stage—had so far been under guard in the Prado Museum, which has returned for the first time paintings seized during the contest to its legitimate owners. To those two, five others have joined, from dif…
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