La Tauromaquia o arte de torear (Bullfighting or Art of the Bullfighter)

1959

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Jose Delgado alias Pepe Illo

Author, Jose Delgado alias Pepe Illo

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    unbound volume with 1 drypoint on the cover; 26 liftground aquatints and 2 additional aquatints included after the text block, on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 35.8 × 50.5 × 4.8 cm (14 1/8 × 19 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.112.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Baer 1986-1996, nos. 970-998

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1986

  • Baer, Brigette. Picasso peintre-graveur. 5 vols and Addendum. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1986 (vol. 3); 1988 (vol. 4); 1989 (vol. 5); 1994 (vol. 6); 1996 (vol. 7 and Addendum). See volumes 1 and 2 under Geiser/Baer 1990-1992: nos. 970-998.

Inscriptions

Signed in pencil on justification page: Picasso (underlined)

Watermarks

Bull; castle turret

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