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 artist’s sunlit studio at La Californie, Cannes, the matador Luis Miguel Dominguin gives Pablo Picasso a lesson in bullfighting in 1959. Dressed in a dark V-neck sweater, Dominguin gestures toward a large Spanish wicker mask of a bull—an object originally intended for training—pointing to one of its horns. Picasso, wearing a dark shirt and patterned trousers, listens attentively with a cigarette in hand. Bright light floods the room, illuminating numerous canvases and casting strong shadows across the floor of the working space.

Artworks:

"Palette", Marina Picasso collection MP.006. Ocaña, M.T. et al. Exh. cat. Picasso en el taller, Fundacion Mapfre 2014, p. 305;
On the chair plate with bullheads >> Artwork(s) not yet identified
Bull mask over "Femme debout", 1953. Spies:480
"Les demoiselles d'Avignon: buste de femme à la grande oreille (Étude)", 1907. MPParis:17; Zervos.XXVI:18
"Homme, femme et enfant", 1906. , Zervos.IIb:587
"Combat de centaures", 1959. Zervos.XIX:104
"Bacchanale", 1959. Bloch.I:930.

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

ArtNotIdentified, Bullfight, Bullfighters, Masks, Sculptures

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