USA.- The UN removes the tapestry of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ after 35 years hanging at its headquarters in New York

NEW YORK, 26 (DPA / EP)

The United Nations has removed this Friday a tapestry of the ‘Guernica’ by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who hung for 35 years at the organization’s headquarters in New York City.

The reproduction of the iconic antiwar work had been loaned to the UN by the family of former US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, whose son has been commissioned to inform the UN that he wants the tapestry back.

“We want to thank the Rockefeller family for having left us this piece of art for more than 35 years,” a United Nations spokesman said in a statement.

Symbol of the horror of war, the tapestry was hung in 1985. The reproduction was also made under the supervision of Picasso himself in the workshop of J. de la Baume Dürrbach, in the south of France.

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