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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: Spain welcomes Picasso’s Guernica
Description: In 1981 one of the world’s most iconic works of art – Guernica - was finally handed to Spain after a 44-year exile.Pablo Picasso had created the huge mural in 1937 followed the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish civil war. And, after being shown in Paris, the painting went on tour in Europe and America, where it was loaned to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.At the time, Picasso swore the painting would never hang in Spain until the country returned to democracy.It wasn...