Homage to the Spanish Republic

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Image of "Homage to the Spanish Republic" 1938 oil painting by artist Julio De Diego showing the backs of a couple holding hands, the man on the left has a gun strapped across his back and a sword on a belt, they are looking at a castle far off in the distance. .

Image of simple painted frame of "Homage to the Spanish Republic" 1938 oil painting by Julio De Diego.

Image of signature and date on "Homage to the Spanish Republic" 1938 oil painting by Julio De Diego.

Verso image of "Homage to the Spanish Republic" 1938 oil painting by Julio De Diego.

Image of artist's label verso on "Homage to the Spanish Republic" 1938 oil painting by Julio De Diego.

Artist's Quote

"A deep-seated aversion to war has been in my mind since I was nineteen years of age and in the Spanish army, where I saw the corruption of the military and, in the Riff, war in all its imbecilic futility. I have always carried with me this hatred of war. Some artists may lose their feelings about war between such conflicts. I never have."

–Julio De Diego

Homage to the Spanish Republic | Caldwell Gallery

In 1951 Lester Burbank Bridaham wrote a piece for the April issue of Art in America on Julio De Diego. In it Bridaham discusses the artist's various processes, as well as his deep aversion to war.

Art in America 1951

The end of war came. Man had to rebuild what he had destroyed.

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Homage to the Spanish Republic 1938

Julio De Diego (1900-1979)

Oil on masonite

36" x 30"

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Artist's Quote

Art in America 1951