Guernica

Japanese: ゲルニカ（英語表記）Guernica

This painting is considered one of Picasso's masterpieces. Guernica is an old town in the Basque Country in northern Spain. On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, a large squadron of the Nazi German Air Force, supporting General Franco, bombed this defenseless town indiscriminately. Picasso, who had been commissioned to create a mural for the Spanish Republic Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair that same year, immediately began work on the mural in his Paris studio upon hearing the tragic news of his homeland's destruction. In just one and a half months, he completed the large-scale painting, measuring 3.45m in height and 7.7m in width, which he named "Guernica." It was kept at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1939 to 1981, and was returned to Spain in September 1981 and exhibited at the Prado Museum, but was later moved to the Reina Sofia National Museum of Art.

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Japanese:

P.ピカソの代表作の一つとされる絵画。ゲルニカはスペイン北部バスク地方にある古い町で，スペイン内乱下の 1937年4月 26日，フランコ将軍を援助するナチス・ドイツ空軍の大編隊がこの無防備な町に無差別爆撃を加えた。同年のパリ万国博覧会のスペイン共和国館に壁画制作を依頼されていたピカソは，この祖国の悲報に接するや，ただちにパリのアトリエでこの壁画の制作を開始し，約1月半の短期間で縦 3.45m，横 7.7mの大画面を完成，『ゲルニカ』と命名した。 39年から 81年までニューヨーク近代美術館に収蔵，81年9月スペインに返還され，プラド美術館に展示されていたが，のちに国立ソフィア王妃芸術センターに移された。

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