Pablo Picasso "La Tauromaquia"
May 1957 dimension: 20 x 30 cm
Etching aquatint with sugar, with hand-etching on copper beveled
printed on paper "Velin pour fil de Guarro" (with dual watermark)
single state
origin: • private art collection
Illustration n. XVIII of the text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili
- Ediciones La Cometa, Barcelona 1959
When a matador is hooked by the bull following un'incornata talking about cogida and the header of the
bull is said derrote. The photographer David Douglas Duncan, who witnessed the work of Picasso on the tables
Bullfighting, he said that this was the single incision to have been "doctored". When
Picasso drew the matador gored by the bull, has murmured: "He made a mistake."
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