Summary
Homage to Franco!!! is more bitterly satirical than the other two drawings by André Fougeron owned by Tate, The Four Horsemen and The Tournament (T07707, T07708). As the title makes clear, its subject is the Falangist leader in the Spanish Civil War, General Francisco Franco (1892-1975). An arch of bones forms a gateway for a horse and rider to trample over a pregnant woman and child surrounded by pigs. The victorious horseman, with blackened wings and a pyramidal hat which covers his head, is grotesque. In this satirical image of victory, the destructiveness of the Falangists makes their successes hollow. Fougeron's inscription places the drawing in November 1937, shortly after Franco strengthened his grip on northern Spain by seizing the Republican government's stronghold of Gijon… (read more)
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