Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1937
Medium
line-block cover
Dimensions
Overall (folded): 59 x 40.3 cm (23 1/4 x 15 7/8 in.)
Style
Wartime modernism
Decade
1930s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Dream and Lie of Franco: Cover Design as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1937, in line-block cover. Picasso's <em>Dream and Lie of Franco </em>was accompanied by a poem written by the artist.
Dream and Lie of Franco: Cover Design 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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