At the bullfight. Ordonez, a leading bullfighter in the 1950's and the last survivor of the dueling matadors chronicled by Hemingway in ''The Dangerous Summer''. Spectators from left: Paulo Picasso, John Richardson, Douglas Cooper, Francine Weisweiller, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Luis Miguel Dominguin (spectator because of injuries), Lucia Bosè, Jacqueline. Antonio Ordonez, Corrida des vendanges. Arles 1959. Other photos of this bullfight in the bull ring see "Miscellaneous"

In the sandy arena of Arles, matador Antonio Ordoñez, dressed in a traditional "traje de luces," performs a pass with his muleta as a dark bull passes close. Watching intently from the stands during this 1959 Corrida des vendanges are Pablo Picasso, his wife Jacqueline, Jean Cocteau, Lucia Bosè, and rival matador Luis Miguel Dominguin, a spectator due to injury. Ordoñez was a leading bullfighter of the 1950s, famously chronicled by Ernest Hemingway in "The Dangerous Summer."

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