Bull Skull, Fruit, Pitcher, Pablo Picasso, 1939
Pablo Picasso, portretPablo PicassoSpanje, 1881–1973

Bull Skull, Fruit, Pitcher

1939 · Painting

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Pablo Picasso painted this still life following the surrender of his beloved Barcelona to General Francisco Franco’s fascist army, an event signaling the defeat of the Spanish Republic. Spain—because of its association with bullfighting—is represented by a bull’s skull. Outside the window, a flowering tree grows in the moonlight. The tree likely references the sacred oak of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain that survived a 1937 bombing by German and Italian air forces ordered by the Spanish Nationalists, a coalition of groups opposed to the Spanish Republic. Symbolic of freedom for the Basque people, the tree suggests hope for the rebirth of democracy in Spain.

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1985.57

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  • Afbeelding: Cleveland Museum of Art — © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In het leven van Pablo Picasso

Het hele leven
  1. 25 september 1936 – 22 september 1939

    Post: director of Museo del Prado

  2. 1939–1940

    Retrospective at MoMA

    The Museum of Modern Art in New York held a major retrospective of Picasso's principal works, revealing to the American public the scale of his achievement.

  3. 1940–1944

    Life in Occupied Paris

    During the German occupation Picasso remained in Paris; his style did not conform to the Nazi ideal of art, he did not exhibit and was harassed by the Gestapo, but he continued to work.

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