PICASSO TOROS Y TOREROS. - Lot 936

PICASSO TOROS Y TOREROS. Catalog of the exhibition presented in Paris at the Musée Picasso from April 6 to June 28, then in Bayonne at the Musée Bonnat from July 9 to September 13, 1993, then in Barcelona at the Musée Picasso from October 6 to January 9, 1994. "Picasso has been an aficionado since childhood. His father used to take him to the bullring in Malaga, and his very first drawings are of bullfighting scenes, as if it were bullfighting that was somehow at the origin of his vocation. Indeed, his 1st painting, 1st sculpture and 1st engraving depict picadors. "Faute d' être peintre, j'aurais aimé être picador" he confided to his friend, the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin. 255 pages - 27 x 21.5 cm - after the preface, 5 well-documented articles PICASSO, the bull and bullfighting - followed by a catalog of Picasso's works, presented, captioned and commented. 129 painted works, various objects classified by period: 1892-1901 Picasso novillero + 1911-1913 Picasso aficionado + 1917-1930 du théâtre de la corrida au drame privé + 1933-1940 du Minotaure à Guernica + 1945-1972 Sol y Sombra - At the end of the book, anthology, glossary, bibliography, list of works.