Basque leaders push to relocate Picasso's Guernica
Basque officials are urging Spain's central government to transfer Picasso’s 1937 anti-war mural Guernica to the Basque region, the area whose 1937 bombing inspired the work.
Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica is at the center of a dispute in Spain after Basque leaders requested that the national government in Madrid move the painting to the Basque Country. The region argues the work should be housed where the 1937 bombing that inspired it occurred.