Scene depicts the painting "Escena de corrida" made by Pablo Picasso in 1934.

Bullfighting posters are interesting from several perspectives: graphic, artistic, and historical. In its graphic dimension, it allows us to appreciate the evolution of the greatest propaganda instrument of the bullfighting festival, the evolution of customs (schedules, order of the fight, etc.), its precepts and the changing taste of the fans (the protagonism of the picadores or bullfighting on foot). In its artistic dimension, it allows observing the influence of the different artistic currents (neoclassicism, romanticism, avant-garde ...) in this medium, as well as its intrinsic aesthetic value or the work of relevant graphic artists.

The obsession that Picasso felt for the bulls in the last years of his life, when he was exiled in France, is well known. However, as happened with Goya, the bullfighting iconography is projected throughout his work, both in his cubist and realist times, in the same way in his facet as a painter, as a ceramicist, sculptor, etc.

Picasso's bullfighting enthusiasm increased over the years, throughout which he collected tickets for the bullfights he attended; badges, which he later used in his sculptures; and erotic bullfighting cards and engravings, "in which the bull or the matador is a sexual organ, male or female."

Aware of his desires, his friends offered him bullfights or organized bullfights, such as those used by Luis Miguel Dominguín, to whom Picasso once confessed that he "would have wanted to be a "picador", not a bullfighter." In fact, he and his son Pablito dressed up at parties with the characteristic costume and performed pantomimes that delighted the respectable (see last picture).

Size: 65x34 cm

Printed in 2009

Made in Spain

Material: coated paper

Languages: Spanish

This is not a recent issue, replica or tourist souvenir.

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