Pablo Picasso with a Spanish wicker mask of a bull, originally intended for bullfighters' training, takes a lesson in bull fighting from an expert, the matador Luis Miguel Dominguin. La Californie, Cannes 1959.

In the sun-drenched, cluttered studio of his villa La Californie in Cannes, Pablo Picasso receives an impromptu bullfighting lesson from the expert matador Luis Miguel Dominguin. Holding a large Spanish wicker mask originally intended for training, Picasso playfully takes the role of the bull while Dominguin, seen in a dark sweater, directs him with animated gestures. The candid 1959 scene unfolds amidst cubist canvases and easels, with dramatic sunlight casting long shadows across the herringbone floor and illuminating a private moment of creative energy.

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Artworks:

"Oiseau", 1957 (Spies dates 1958, probably wrong). Spies:543b
The other "oiseau" >> Artwork(s) not yet identified
"Palette", Marina Picasso collection MP.006. Ocaña, M.T. et al. Exh. cat. Picasso en el taller, Fundacion Mapfre 2014, p. 305;
"La chouette" or "Hibou blanc". Spies:403;
"Les demoiselles d'Avignon: buste de femme à la grande oreille (Étude)", 1907. MPParis:17; Zervos.XXVI:18
"Femme se tenant les genoux" (inachevé) (Jacqueline), 1954. Richardson.2010:203
"Homme, femme et enfant", 1906. , Zervos.IIb:587
"Combat de centaures", 1959. Zervos.XIX:104
"Deux femmes" or "Deux femmes avec un vase à fleurs", 1959. Similar (different position of right arm) Bloch.I:915; Geiser/Baer:1239

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

ArtNotIdentified, Bullfight, Bullfighters, Masks, Sculptures

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