In 1937, he painted an immensely powerful anti-war piece — Guernica — inspired by the Nazi bombing of a small Basque town in northern Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
Almost half a century after the death of General Francisco Franco, the Spanish parliament has passed a law to honour those who suffered persecution during the Spanish civil war and his dictatorship.
The Spanish Civil War was fought between the left-wing Republicans and the right-wing nationalists for three years between 1936 and 1939 immediately prior to the second world war.