| The Charnel House | |
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| Artist | Pablo Picasso |
| Year | 1944-1945 |
| Medium | Oil and charcoal on canvas |
| Dimensions | 199.8 cm × 250.1 cm (78.7 in × 98.5 in) |
| Location | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
The Charnel House (French: Le Charnier) is an unfinished 1944–1945 oil and charcoal on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which is purported to deal with the Nazi genocide of the Holocaust. The black and white 'grisaille' composition centres on a massed pile of corpses and was based primarily upon film and photographs of a slaughtered family during the Spanish Civil War.[1] It is considered to be the second of three major anti-war Picassos, preceded by Guernica in 1937 and succeeded by Massacre in Korea in 1951. The painting is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.