Beijing, 6 Feb (Xinhua) -- A huge tapestry based on the painting "Guernica" by Spanish painting master Pablo Picasso "Returned" to the United Nations on the 5th and appeared prominently at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations Headquarters building in New York City, USA.
"Guernica" is Picasso's 1937 giant oil painting, set in the Luftwaffe bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica, indiscriminate killing of innocents, attacking the disaster brought by war, is his famous anti-war painting. Nelson Rockefeller, who was vice president of the United States in the 1970s, commissioned the production of the Guernica tapestry in 1955 and lent it to the United Nations in 1984, and the tapestry was hung prominently on the Security Council.
Tapestry "Guernica". (Xinhua News Agency, photo by Xie Yun'an)
Earlier last year, the current owner of the tapestry, Nelson Rockefeller Jr., was the son of Nelson Rockefeller. A. Rockefeller offered to take back the tapestry. The United Nations returned the tapestry last February. According to the Associated Press, Nelson Jr.'s approach has caused dissatisfaction among many U.N. diplomats and staff.
Nelson Jr. issued a statement on the 5th that the tapestry has been re-leased to the United Nations, and he and his family thank the United Nations for properly keeping the tapestry. He intends to donate tapestries to the National Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Relics in the future. (Qiao Ying)
![Picasso's masterpiece Guernica: War and Peace, An Eternal Protest against Barbarism and Violence Pablo Piasso is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century modern art. Even those who are not very interested in modern art will not forget his dove of peace, which flew across five continents after the end of the Second World War, and now let us appreciate another of his equally expressive modern art styles, "Guernica".[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)