Summoning a bull with flags while seated in the chair (Citando al toro a banderillas sentano en una

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

A mode used to ensnare the bull is to cause its charges with unusual movements
find originals by the matador. Even Goya, Picasso as it does in this aquatint, he had represented
the bullfighter sitting on a chair in the center of the arena that gives evidence of his courage and for his temerity challenging
the bull and increasing the risk to which it exposes: see Recklessness engraving Martincho arena of
Zaragoza (from Bullfighting of Goya 1816). Picasso made particularly intense time of
show, determined by the expectation of direct confrontation between the bullfighter and the bull, through the spaces of the arena
left empty, and the excitement of the crowd in the stands, made with simple color spots.

More information in the annex