US EditionPicasso’s War Masterpiece Triggers Spanish Political Spat
Madrid says the mural is too fragile to travel, while Basque leaders call the move a form of historical reparation.
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The request of the Basque government to recover the picture to expose it in Bilbao has aroused a lively debate in Spain. The painting painted by Pablo Picasso, emblem of the denunciation of the war, remains in Madrid, faced with the risks of his displacement. "The Point K" by Karim Bennani, in Bonjour! Matinale TF1, returns to this arm of iron. - How, in 2026, Picasso's painting "Guernica" divides Spain (Culture, media and entertainment).
Spain feud over Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ reignites tug-of-war with Basque leaders
MADRID, April 9 — Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica is swept up in a conflict in Spain, where Basque leaders want the government in Madrid to move the painting to their region, whose 1937 bombing inspired it.The mural-sized painting has been on display since 1992 at the Reina Sofia museum in the Spanish capital, and repeated requests for it to be moved to Spain’s Basque Country have been refused.The latest demand was made by the head…
The Basque Country has requested the provisional transfer of this work on the Spanish Civil War but the central government opposes the risk of deterioration The post Picasso's Guernica will not move from Madrid first appeared on Junior Report.
The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid opposed the temporary loan of the painting in the name of its preservation. The Basque government, which had requested the transfer, wanted to expose it to the Guggenheim of Bilbao, for the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque city of Guernica, which inspired the painter.
The Basque Government's request to extend the relocation of the Guernica for nine months has been given a "round of no" by Ernest Urtasun, the Spanish Minister of Culture and spokesperson for the Sumar party. Instead of refusing the relocation, Ibone Bengoetxea, the Minister of Culture and Vice-President of the Basque Government, has asked him to specify the conditions under which the relocation could be carried out.
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