A political dispute has broken out over a possible loan to Bilbao of Picasso‘s Guernica, an icon of modern art that has not left Madrid since its arrival in Spain in 1981. The debate was reignited after the Basque regional government´s request that the anti-war masterpiece be loaned from Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao for a nine-month exhibition starting this October to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the town of Guernica by the Nazi Condor Legion and the creation of the first Basque government. Basque leader Imanol Pradales has framed the...
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