LUIS Iriondo points to an oil painting on the wall of his studio. It shows a woman sitting on a pile of rubble holding her head in her hands. She is weeping amid an apocalyptic scene.
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“In the panel on which I am working, which I shall call Guernica, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death”
Thus spoke an outraged Picasso as he set about painting one of the most famous � and now iconic � images of war, depicting the violence and terror experienced by the Basque people of Guernica as their little town was razed to the ground by German and Italian firepower under orders of Spain�s fascist leader Franco. Seventy years on, two survivors tell their tale
