A Kids’ Guernica painting created by Eishin junior high school in Hiroshima was displayed at the 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Hiroshima on November 12. The Laureates including His Holiness
the Dalai Lama discussed the legacy of Hiroshima for the world peace in the summit.
Guernica was initially exhibited in July 1937 at the Spanish Pavilion at the
Paris International Exposition The Pavilion, which was financed by the Spanish Republican government at the time of civil war, was built to exhibit the Spanish government's struggle for existence contrary to the Exposition's technology theme. The Pavilion's entrance presented an enormous photographic mural of Republican soldiers accompanied by the slogan:
Between 1939 and 1952, the painting traveled extensively in the United States; between 1953 and 1956 it was shown in
Brazil, at the first-ever Picasso retrospective in
Milan, Italy, and then in numerous other major European cities, before returning to MoMA for a retrospective celebrating Picasso's seventy-fifth birthday. It then went on to
Chicago and
Philadelphia. By this time, concern for the state of the painting resulted in a decision to keep it in one place: a room on MoMA's third floor, where it was accompanied by several of Picasso's preliminary studies and some of Dora Maar's photos. The studies and photos were often loaned for other exhibitions, but until 1981,
Guernica itself remained at MoMA.
