Torero et Cheval Piétinés par le Taureau

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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.

Provenance

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

Literature

Bloch 1315; Baer 139 (this impression cited in Baer)

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

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).

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