©Pablo Picasso - The Charnel House. The mass grave 1945

Picasso The mass grave 1945
The Charnel House. The mass grave
1945 199x250cm oil and charcoal on canvas
The Museum of Modern Art New York

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From The Museum of Modern Art New York:
The Charnel House was Picasso’s most overtly political painting since Guernica of 1937 (now in the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid). Echoing Guernica in its pyramidal composition and abstracted forms, it was inspired by newspaper war photographs, the tones of which are reflected in its somber black–and–white palette. The central jumble of figures a murdered family sprawled beneath a dining table—might suggest the piles of corpses discovered in Nazi concentration camps upon their liberation. While Guernica, a commentary on the Spanish Civil War, may be seen as signaling the violent beginning of World War II, The Charnel House marks its horrific end.