Antonio Ordóñez, a leading bullfighter in the 1950's and the last survivor of the dueling matadors chronicled by Hemingway in ''The Dangerous Summer''. Corrida des vendanges à Arles 1959. A bullfight Picasso attended (see "Picasso").

Antonio Ordóñez, a leading bullfighter of the 1950s, faces a large, dark bull during the Corrida des vendanges in Arles, 1959. Dressed in an ornate, light-pink traje de luces, he stands poised, holding the red muleta low to the ground and a sword near his shoulder. A friend of Pablo Picasso, who attended this bullfight, Ordóñez was also the subject of Ernest Hemingway’s chronicle of dueling matadors, 'The Dangerous Summer'.

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