Image: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía archive image; © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP
View source →Mother with Dead Child [I]. Sketch for Guernica
Pablo Picasso, 9 May 1937
Technical Details
Medium
Drawing
Dimensions
Dimensions not specified in the cited museum record
Style
Expressionism / Drawing
Decade
1930s
About This Work
Mother with Dead Child [I] isolates one of the central figures developed during Picasso’s work on Guernica: a mother holding her child. As a drawing rather than the final mural, it records a focused stage of the artist’s process and makes the compressed relationship between the two figures its central formal concern.
Museo Reina Sofía dates this drawing to Paris, 9 May 1937, and archives it under reference DE00065 in its Guernica documentation. The record identifies it as part of the Picasso Bequest of 1981. This correction replaces unsupported measurements, medium, image licensing, and numerical claims about the total number of preparatory studies with the museum’s direct archive metadata.
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Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
Priceless / Not for sale
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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