Lot Tire the bull with a lance (Alanceando a un toro) - Pablo Picasso - "La Tauromaquia”

Tire the bull with a lance (Alanceando a un toro) - Pablo Picasso - "La Tauromaquia”

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

In this, and in the previous incision of the series (n. 25), the additional steps are described with respect to
bullfighting illustrated previously. In this case Picasso chooses to illustrate another step of dexterity that
can carry the picador on horseback: the bull is instigated with the spear. The bullfighter to the left instead of waiting
direct the animal's charges by moving the hood (the cloth).

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Pablo Picasso "La Tauromaquia"

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Pablo Picasso "La Tauromaquia"

In auction complete collection of tables made by Picasso to illustrate the first and most classic treatise on Corrida, "La Tauromaquia".

Collection includes 26 tables painted in 1957, two additional incisions "out of range" for the first twelve copies of book, also painted in 1957, and a cover painted in 1959.

Margin VAT (artt. 36 e ss. D.l. 41/95)

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€ 128.000,00

Milano (MI) - Italy

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