Ride of the bullfighting teams (Paseo de cuadrillas) - 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. III of the text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili - Ediciones
Comet, Barcelona 1959

This third recording of the series depicts the "paseo", the parade of cuadrillas, teams that will fight
in the day and entering the arena opening of bullfighting. It is the fashion show of the whole work team
bullfighter. In sequential order from right appear: the matador who is the main actor, the one who must kill the bull,
and six characters on foot divided into two groups, the Banderilleros, and other horse characters, the picadors. The banderilleros
They are those who use a wooden stick called "banderillas"; They are also provided with the hood or muleta (the cloth)
and must stick the banderillas in the bull's neck. The picadors on horseback, wearing a hat, the montera, by
large tense, and must bleed the bull with spears.

More information in the annex