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The Dream and Lie of Franco is a series of fourteen[1] or eighteen[2][clarify] etchings, and accompanying prose poem, by Pablo Picasso produced in early 1937.
The etchings were intended to be published as postcards to raise funds for the Spanish Republican government, and sold at the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World Fair.[clarify]
The Dream and Lie of Franco is Picasso's first overtly political work and prefigures his iconic political painting Guernica. The etchings satirise Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's claim to represent and defend conservative Spanish culture and values by showing him in various ridiculous guises destroying Spain and its culture while the poem denounces "evil-omened polyps"[3].
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