Guernica at the Whitechapel
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Guernica at the Whitechapel
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 31 Oct 2009
It is no idle whim to include an image of this tapestry reproduction of Picasso's great anti-war painting but because it is so significant for the political and cultural stance of the Whitechapel Gallery, the only British venue to exhibit the painting in 1939. The original work is now too fragile to leave Madrid; this tapestry was loaned to the gallery, for its re-opening, by its owner Margaretta Rockefeller. Normally it hangs in the United Nations in New York where in 2003 it was controversially veiled prior to a speech by Colin Powell on the eve of the Iraq war.
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