Summonig the bull with the spear (Citando al toro con el rejón) - Pablo Picasso - "La Tauromaquia”

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. XXV of the text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili
- Ediciones La Cometa, Barcelona 1959

In this, and subsequent etching of the series, they describe the additional moves compared to bullfighting
traditional, illustrated in the previous prints. In this case it is documented another step of dexterity
which can carry the picador on horseback, one in which the bull is instigated with an instrument, the rejon. The place bullfighter
on the left instead waits to address the animal's charges by moving the hood (the cloth). To make
evident the moves illustrated Picasso chose to reduce to the presence of the public.

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