Depicting Grief in Art: Pablo Picasso

In his lifetime, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) created over 13,000 (!) paintings.  That does not include the thousands upon thousands of other works of art to his name, including prints, engravings, ceramics, and sculptures.  One of these paintings is the "Weeping Woman", created in 1937.  Tate, the British art institute, gives us some background to this Picasso work:

 

"Weeping Woman is based on an image of a woman holding her dead child. It is taken from Picasso’s anti-war mural, Guernica. Picasso painted both works during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). It was in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica. The attack was carried out in April 1937 by Nazi Germany’s air force, in support of Spain's Nationalist forces."