Swinging the cape away (Toreando a la verónica) - 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
country of origin: • private art collection
Illustration n. VII text: José Delgado (alias Pepe Illo), La Tauromaquia or Arte de torear, Gustavo Gili -
Ediciones La Cometa, Barcelona 1959

The engraving illustrates the passage of the said "verónica". In the bullfighting it takes place normally during the first two
tercios and is a figure in which the bullfighter places himself in the side profile of the bull and awaits the charge holding the hood
(Drape) leaning forward and open with both hands. The bullfighter ago, so that the hood steps
in front of the bull and that these changes the charge direction. It is a classic step of bullfighting say so
because the bullfighter has the mantle of the bull as "Veronica" he had the sheet with the face of Christ. Picasso
He has been able to make precisely the moment in which the bull is induced to change the charging direction.

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