Doves
In January 1949, [Pablo Picasso](https://www.artsy.net/artist/henri-matisse>Henri Matisse presented <a href=) with a gift: a snow white Milanese pigeon. Using the bird as his model, Picasso created his renowned lithograph, Dove (1949), which has since become an enduring international symbol of peace. A reproduction of Dove was used as the poster for the 1949 Paris Peace Congress, which Picasso himself attended. The day before the Congress opened on April 20th, Picasso even named his newborn daughter “Paloma,” the Spanish word for dove. Though Picasso was apolitical for most of his early adulthood, his perspective was fundamentally changed after the 1937 aerial attack on the village of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Marking a shift, Picasso created his agonizing masterwork of the same year, Guernica, and continued his career wrestling with the tragedy of war and ideals of world peace.
Series by this artist
- Portraits of Artists and Sculptors132 available
- Linocuts116 available
- Bulls93 available
- Picadors52 available
- Portraits of His Lovers35 available
- 347 Suite29 available
- Dancers28 available
- Fish20 available
- Owls13 available
- Vollard Suite7 available
- 156 Suite6 available
- Saltimbanques Suite5 available
- Weeping Women2 available
- Cubist Period1 available
- Honoré de Balzac1 available