Interview with Álvaro Martínez-Novillo Madrid, 2023 Álvaro Martínez-Novillo (Madrid, 1948) was deputy director-general of Plastic Arts in Spain’s Ministry of Culture the year Guernica (1937) arrived in Spain. The Collection
Oral History Rethinking Guernica The Oral History of Guernica is a collection in progress made up of first-hand testimonies through interviews with some of the figures involved in the most recent decades across the history of the painting, stretching from 1960 to the present day. The Collection
Interview with Tony Shafrazi New York, 2019 Tony Shafrazi (Abadan, Iran, 1943), artist and art dealer. To the backdrop of the Vietnam War and its political and social impact in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Shafrazi explains the reasons behind his 1974 action protest against an anti-war icon such as Guernica.Access Oral History The Collection
Interview with Claude Picasso Paris, 2019 Claude Ruiz Picasso (Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 1947), artist, film-maker and son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. In this interview, Claude Picasso offers his view of the process to transfer Guernica to Spain following the death of his father in 1973: the conflictive relationship with Roland Dumas, executor of the artist’s will, his family’s grievance over the moral right of the work, and its installation in the Museo Reina Sofía.Access Oral History The Collection
