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When Picasso painted Guernica in 1937, he did not employ his usual palette. Rather he turned to black, white and grey house paints, specially selected in order to achieve the minimum amount of gloss. The outcome is one of the most famous anti-war paintings as well as one of the most famous monochromatic works of art – up there with Ingres’ Odalisque in Grisaille and Malevich’s Black Square. Now, on the 85th anniversary of the bombing that Guernica depicts, a team of 40 master craftsme...

Updated: 25/04/2021 Euskal Gozogileak (Basque Confectioners) association members exhibit a life-size chocolate version of Picassos painting "Guernica" in the Spanish Basque town of Guernica. The 7.70m x 3.50m chocolate replica made by around 40 confectioners is been exhibited in the town to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the 1937 bombing raid of the small Basque town by Nazi aircraft, at the behest of General Francisco Franco.