Format 59.5x43 cm, format with binding 73x53 cm, paper, lithograph. Good condition (traces of folding, paper losses).
Work by Pablo Picasso, commemorating the World Congress of Defenders of Peace. This was the first meeting of several European member organizations of the Peace Movement, founded a year earlier in August 1948 in Breslau, Poland. The congress was held from April 20 to 25, 1949, in two meetings held in parallel: one in Paris (Salle Pleyel and the closing meeting in Buffalo Stadium); the other, held in Prague, brought together delegates from the Eastern Bloc, who had been denied visas by the French authorities. This Congress marked, in a sense, the true birth of the World Peace Council. Here a piece of the lithograph autographed by the artist. Another piece of the lithograph is also in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.