"Los Cabestros Retiran al Toro Manso (B.959)" is an aquatint, from the edition of 263, created by Pablo Picasso for his "La Tauromaquia" series in 1959. The image size is 7.87 x 11.5" and the artwork is framed in a contemporary black frame. The artwork ships framed and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
La Tauromaquia, 1959
Text by Jose Delgado, alias ‘Pepe Illo’
“This book was commissioned by Gustavo Gili, Senior, in 1927, for the collection of bibliophile books he published under the name of ‘Ediciones de Cometa’. (Picasso alludes to this in the drypoint B.950 which he made for the cover (made with a penknife at Vauvenargues in 1959), because it shows a kite; cometa in Spanish means kite). Picasso made a few prints for the book (Geiser 136 – 141; and two others were chosen to illustrate Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu, No. 20 – see Geiser 125 and 132). Henry de Montherlant wrote a preface and then the wars in Spain and elsewhere put an end to the project. In 1956 Gustavo Gili, Junior, reminded Picasso of the book. In the spring of 1957, at Cannes, several days after the Easter corrida that the artist had attended at Arles, he started work again. Using a brush, he painted on the copperplates directly, creating a sort of “stenogram” of light and shade, which is the modern equivalent of Goya’s Tauromaquia of 1815. Picasso’s 26 aquatints accompany the text written by the famous torero, Pepe Illo; his manual, which was published in 1796, was the first handbook for the toreros and aficionados.” (Goeppert, Sebastian, et al. Pablo Picasso, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné. Patrick Cramer, 1983, pp. 253 – 255.)
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