Picasso War Portrait at Heart of Festival Art Highlight

The ScotsmanJuly 17, 2009

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WORK by artists including Picasso, El Greco, Goya, Velzquez and Zurbarn go on show tomorrow as the National Gallery of Scotland unveils "The Discovery of Spain", the highlight of its Festival programme for 2009.

The exhibition charts the era from 1800, when Spain was "discovered" by artists, to the devastation of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, with Pablo Picasso's Weeping Woman as its powerful finale. The painting, the centrepiece of the exhibition, depicts a woman holding her dead child and "weeping for Spain".

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Picasso War Portrait at Heart of Festival Art Highlight

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