Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1937
Medium
etching, sugar-lift aquatint, and chine collé on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.5 x 41.5 cm (12 x 16 5/16 in.); Plate: 31.6 x 42.1 cm (12 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 38 x 57 cm (14 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
Style
Wartime modernism
Decade
1930s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Dream and Lie of Franco II: January 9, 1937 as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1937, in etching, sugar-lift aquatint, and chine collé on wove paper. Picasso began working on the plate for this etching on January 9 but left it unfinished. He completed the last four frames on June 7 using imagery related to his painting <em>Guernica</em>, including a weeping woman and a mother running from a burning building with a dead child in her arms.
Dream and Lie of Franco II: January 9, 1937 is grouped here under Wartime Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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