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Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artists of the 20th Century. He was born in Spain in 1881 but spent the greater part of his life in France, where he died in 1973 in Mougins. He was famous not only for his art but also as a political activist in the Communist Party. According to various sources, during his lifetime Picasso produced from 50 000 to 120 000 works found after his death. If one were to choose just one painting representing not only his art but also his political engagement, it would doubtless be the world-famous Guernica. The painting symbolizes above all the horrors of war and expresses his fury when the city of Guernica was bombed in 1937. The story is told of how he was approached by a Nazi officer who asked him “Why did you do it?”: to which the painter replied, “It was you that did it!” Besides his extraordinary paintings, Picasso also produced a great quantity of lithographs, some of which are contained in the several books which art publisher Ferdinand Mou

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