Summoning the bull with the cape (Citando al toro con la capa) - 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. VI text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili -
Ediciones La Cometa, Barcelona 1959

The engraving represents the moment of the first tercio which starts after the sound of a trumpet. The bullfighter,
disarmed, using the hood to provoke the bull charges. The hood is the two-tone canvas cloth, magenta
and yellow (stiffened and weighed down by a liquid rubber bathrooms), which can be moved in different ways. action
spectacular, probably described in its initial stage in the engraving, it is the Farol: the bullfighter kneeling ago
flying the hood over his head. The virtuosity of the bullfighter and the bull's fury animate the audience you
shake the arena stands. In the picture there are also two other Torei attending the matador in
his business.

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