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TATE’S GREATEST HITSRepublican Pavilion in 1937, but this is a more intimate,though arguably equally powerful, work. The colours hereare notably acrid, appropriate to the tense subject matter.It is long associated with Britain, as Roland Penrose,the surrealist artist and collector, bought it directly fromPicasso (a long-term friend). On entering the Tate itimmediately came to stand for Picasso’s extraordinaryability to capture emotion.``````PICASSO’S WEEPING WOMANWhen he created Weeping Woman, Picasso had beenlooking at [the work of] Matthias Grünewald over severalyears, and the intensity of suffering in The IsenheimAltarpiece [a religious artwork, created with sculptorNiclaus of Haguenau] chimes with his shocked reactionto the Spanish Civil War.He had made the monumental Guernica for the Spanish``````TOP 5 AT THE TATEMATTHEW GALE, HEAD OF DISPLAYS, TATE MODERN``````PABLO PICASSO, WEEPING WOMAN 1937, OIL PAINT ON CANVAS, 60X50CM , ACCEPTED BY HM GOVERNMENT IN LIEU OF TAX WITH ADDITIONAL PAYMENT (GRANT-IN-AID) MADEWITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND, THE ART FUND AND THE FRIENDS OF THE TATE GALLERY 1987 © SUCCESSION PICASSO/DACS 20161>Artists & Illustrators 2928 Tate's Greatest Hits.indd 29 08/06/2016 12:50