Art wall "weeping woman" by pablo picasso 14x18 gallery wrapped canvas art. the weeping woman series is regarded as a thematic continuation of the tragedy depicted in picasso"s epic painting guernica. in focusing on the image of a woman crying, the artist was no longer painting the effects of the spanish civil war directly, but rather referring to a singular universal image of suffering. picasso"s insistence that we imagine ourselves into the excoriated face of this woman, into her dark eyes, was part of his response to seeing newspaper photographs of the luftwaffe"s bombing of guernica on behalf of franco in the spanish civil war on april 26, 1937. the weeping woman, 1937 came at the end of the series of paintings, prints and drawings that picasso made in protest. it has very personal, spanish sources. in may 1937 picasso"s mother wrote to him from barcelona that smoke from the burning city during the fighting made her eyes water. the mater dolorosa, the weeping virgin, is a traditio.