Picasso swap shop
May 23 2017
Picture: Rex Features via The Times
The Times reports that in the 1960s, Franco's Spanish government offered the US government its choice of any Velasquez they liked in return for Picasso's Guernica. Picasso's masterpiece was at that time on display in the US, the artist having stipulated that it could only return to Spain once democracy had returned. More here.
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