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Spanish politicians clash over request to move Picasso’s Guernica

The Guardian · · 444 words · By Stephen Burgen
Cultural heritage disputes Regional autonomy tensions
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“A row has broken out between the Madrid and Basque regional governments in Spain over the latter’s request for Guernica to be housed temporarily in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to mark the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town.”
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No evidence in Wikipedia or other sources confirms the current dispute over temporarily moving Guernica to the Guggenheim for the 90th anniversary.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica (, Spanish pronunciation: [ɡeɾˈnika]), officially Gernika (pronounced [ɡernika]) in Basque, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain. The …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
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“A row has broken out between the Madrid and Basque regional governments in Spain over the latter’s request for Guernica to be housed temporarily in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to mark the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica (, Spanish pronunciation: [ɡeɾˈnika]), officially Gernika (pronounced [ɡernika]) in Basque, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain. The …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
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“The work has hung in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid since 1992.”
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Wikipedia confirms Guernica has been exhibited at the Reina Sofía museum since its 1992 inauguration.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi is a sculpture created by the American artist Richard Serra. Originally created in 1986 for the Reina Sofia Museum, the sculpture was put into storage in 1988. In 2006,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengas…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Nacional_Centro_de_Arte_…
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“The work has hung in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid since 1992.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi is a sculpture created by the American artist Richard Serra. Originally created in 1986 for the Reina Sofia Museum, the sculpture was put into storage in 1988. In 2006,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengas…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, …
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“Repeated requests for Guernica to be moved to the Basque Country have been refused.”
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No evidence in Wikipedia or other sources confirms previous requests to move Guernica to the Basque Country were denied.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Basque ( BASK, BAHSK; endonym euskara [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of sout…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
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“Repeated requests for Guernica to be moved to the Basque Country have been refused.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Basque ( BASK, BAHSK; endonym euskara [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of sout…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
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“The Basque government wants the painting to be hung in the Guggenheim from 1 October until 30 June to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica.”
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“Picasso’s black-and-white masterpiece depicts the violence of the attack carried out by the Italian air force on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish civil war.”
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“Estimates of the number killed in Guernica vary widely, from 126 to 1,654.”
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“Picasso painted Guernica shortly after the event and it was exhibited at the Paris International Exposition in 1937.”
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“After the Paris exhibition, Guernica toured Europe and the US and, as Picasso opposed its return to Spain during the Franco dictatorship, for many years it was hung in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.”
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“In 2000, the Reina Sofía turned down a request from MoMA to borrow Guernica, saying 'the great icon of our museum must remain, without exception, separate from the policy on lending works to other museums'.”
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