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# “Dove with olive branch”, Pablo Picasso
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/picasso-2403jsp/
- Published: 2005-04-03T23:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-17T11:52:27.000Z
- Author: Open democracy
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![dove_565.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3f/80/3f804bea-4b2d-4ddf-9ff0-6ec7d0afa5fa/content/images/2026/04/dove_565_Myxk6he-1776425897582.jpg)

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Colombe au rameau d’olivier, visage, main et feuille de chêne, 1950 Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

Five years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, [Pablo Picasso](http://www.picasso.fr/anglais/?ref=opendemocracy.net) created this picture of peace. In the same year, [William Faulkner](http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner%5Fwilliam/?ref=opendemocracy.net) received the Nobel Prize for literature, with the following [words](http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-speech.html?ref=opendemocracy.net):

“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?”

But, he said, “I decline to accept the end of man… I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things.”

*With thanks to the* [*Online Picasso Project*](http://csdll.cs.tamu.edu:8080/picasso/PicassoBrowseItem?id=4943&ref=opendemocracy.net)