Realising dogs on the bull (Echan perros al toro) - 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. XI of the text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili -
Ediciones La Cometa, Barcelona 1959

The iconographic reference to this incision is detectable in two famous prints of bullfighting
Goya (1816): Dogs unleashed the bull and unleashing dogs against the bull and describes the moment
which some dogs instigate the bull, while the bullfighters will guide the direction of charge with the hood.

More information in the annex