Divided into smaller scenes, in the manner of comic-book illustrations, this print shows General Franco looking like a deformed vegetable, astride a horse, tightrope walking, smashing up sculptures and so on. A skilled military tactician, General Franco was part of a right-wing military coup, which overthrew Spain’s elected left-wing government in 1936. Civil War ensued. The bull, which is attacking him in the fifth image, symbolises Republican Spain. Picasso was a strong supporter of the Popular Front and an opponent of Franco. He gave these prints to Roland Penrose, the English artist, writer and collector, much of Penrose’s collection of Surrealist art belongs to the Gallery of Modern Art.