The bull leaves the bullpen (El toro sale del toril) - 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. V Text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili -
Ediciones La Cometa, Barcelona 1959

In the first phase of the bullfight (tercio de varas) the bull comes out from the door of toril, the fence in the form of dark loggia
where the bulls are brought to be calm down a few hours before the bullfight. Before the exit of the bull is pierced
shoulder with a dart containing the colors of vacada who raised him. This "bite", very small in itself,
just to provoke a sense of fear in the bull for the environment alien to him and an alarm state that predisposes
Combat: aquatint depicts the next time in this episode. Waving the cloth, in the Banderilleros
turn attract the bull and study their moves, to determine and show the matador's physical abilities, speed of
reflexes and the preferred direction in the attack. In the notch are present, in fact, two Banderilleros, of which the one
center moves the cloth while the other waits his turn; the matador on horseback instead assists to the scene.

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