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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Torero et Cheval Piétinés par le Taureau

Fermé18 March 2020

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Torero et Cheval Piétinés par le Taureau
etching, 1929, on Arches wove paper, watermark J Perrigot, a very fine impression of this rare print, one of only five known proofs, with wide margins, deckle edges below and at left, very pale time and mountstaining, otherwise in very good condition
Plate 191 x 278 mm., Sheet 278 x 376 mm.

Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona; then by descent to the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Picasso was commissioned by Gustau Gili Roig in 1926 to create a series of ten etchings to illustrate José Delgado's Tauromaquia o el Arte de Torear a Caballo y a Pie. The artist completed six of etchings, including the present subject, before the project was interrupted and then abandoned due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Gustau Gili Roig's son, Gustau Gili Esteve, persuaded Picasso to revive the project three decades later, resulting in the portfolio of 26 aquatints published in 1959 (see lot 19).