Jump with the pole (Salto con la garrocha) - 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. VIII text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili -
Ediciones La Cometa, Barcelona 1959

The engraving illustrates a particularly spectacular moment, one in which the bullfighter practice the jump with a pole
called "garrocha". It is an exercise in agility and acrobatic skill that wows audiences,
represented in the background. The iconographic reference is traceable in the famous print of Bullfighting
Goya (1816): Agility and audacity of Juanito Apiani arena in Madrid.

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