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THE WARSAW MERMAID (SYRENKA WARSZAWSKA) 1950 Signed & Dated by Pablo Picasso Original art drawing on paper (17 cm x 21 cm)The original form of this image was first drawn by Picasso upon a wall in Warsaw in 1948, as a peace symbol after World War 2. About 4 years later an elderly local Polish resident objected to it and Picasso's "Peace Mermaid" was washed off and painted over by the local council. In the meantime Picasso had committed the image for posterity onto this piece of paper, signed and dated 4th September 1950.A genuine artwork by the 20th Century's great master, this peace symbol of the Warsaw Mermaid Syrenka in Polish, while in English she is Sabrena. Curiously the Latin name Sabrina was paralleled in Celtic Britain as Savren (Havren), the princess whose life ended in the river Severn, which then tok its name from her. As she voluntarily ended her days in the deep waters of the Severn in preference to being executed for no crime other than being her father's daughter, so the Mermaid theme,… Read More