©Pablo Picasso - Woman Seated in a Grey Armchair 1939

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Woman Seated in a Grey Armchair 1939

Woman Seated in a Grey Armchair 1939
130x97cm oil/canvas
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes

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From Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía:
On January 13th 1939, Pablo Picasso’s mother died in Barcelona, and a month later Catalonia was occupied by Franco’s troops. In March, Hitler invaded Prague and later Madrid fell to General Franco, who announced, on April 1st, the surrender of the Republican Army and his victory in the Civil War. The news kept coming from his country, adding to Picasso’s private grief and, significantly, it was on the very day of the Republican surrender, April 1st 1939, that he completed Femme assise dans un fauteuil gris (Woman Seated in a Grey Armchair, 1939).
T Paloma Esteban Leal