Pablo Picasso

He still had connections to Spain as Honorary Director-in-Exile of the Prado Museum in Madrid, however, and so agreed to the commission. | In January 1937 the Spanish Republican government commissioned Pablo Picasso to create a mural on the theme of "technology" for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. | On the first of May Picasso read George Steer's moving eyewitness account of the bombing of Guernica and started sketches for what would become the world-famous painting, known as Guernica. | Picasso was living in Paris at the time and hadn't been to Spain for three years.