Pablo Picasso portrays a stage in the bullfight when the bullfighter is caught by the horns of the bull. During filming of "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955.
At the Studios de la Victorine in Nice, during the 1955 filming of "Le mystère Picasso," Pablo Picasso paints a dramatic moment from a bullfight. His abstract composition, captured in this grainy photograph, portrays a bullfighter being caught on the horns of the bull. Rendered in broad, gestural brushstrokes, the gray forms resolve into sweeping lines and interconnected loops, conveying a powerful sense of dynamic movement.
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Artworks:
- "Scène de tauromachie (Le torero soulevé)", 1955. Warncke:522
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com / © Succession Picasso / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
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