Cover from Sueño y Mentira de Franco (Dream and Lie of Franco)

Pablo Picasso

January 8 and 9, June 7, 1937

Blue-green paper cover for album containing two etchings with sugar-lift aquatint and scraper, letterpress and facsimile of handwritten text printed in heliogravure

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A white paper cutout with black ink text is mounted on a grey background. The text includes a signature and title. A white paper cutout with black ink text is mounted on a grey background. The text includes a signature and title. The 18 etched scenes Picasso made for this portfolio were originally intended to be cut out as postcards and sold individually at the Spanish pavilion of the 1937 Paris World's Fair to benefit the Spanish Refugee Relief Fund. Portfolio includes prose poem written by Picasso, with translations in French and English. Gallery Not on View The Herschel V. Jones Fund, by exchange