Florentino Perez-Embid, Director of the State Office of Fine Arts (1968-1974), relations between Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró

Authors

  • Onésimo Díaz Hernández University of Navarra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/cercles2023.26.1003

Keywords:

Pérez-Embid, Miró, Picasso, art and politics, Franco regime

Abstract

This article examines the efforts of Florentino Pérez-Embid, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts (1968-1974), to improve relations between Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró through Franco’s dictatorship. This text serves two fundamental purposes of the Andalusia politician and intel­lectual. Firstly, I discuss the government’s negotiations to bring the Guernica from the United States to Spain. Second, I analize how Pérez-Embid reached an agreement with Miró. This essay analyzes the process using unpublished documents from Perez-Embid’s personal archive, housed at the Archivo General of the University of Navarra.

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Published

2023-12-17

Issue

No. 26 (2023): Cercles: Cultural History Journal

Section

Estudis

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