It is very unclear exactly how many sets of Sueño y Mentira de Franco were issued in this cut form. Begun in January 1937 as a protest against Franco's coup d'etat in Spain, the scenes were at one point envisioned as postcards, but it seems that this idea was abandoned by Picasso fairly early on. Cramer records that Picasso authorized the issue of the sets in the present form on June 9, 1939 and that these sets were assembled by the Spanish Republican Government office attached to the Paris Embassy. Very few of the sets seem to have survived.