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, 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. Arles 1959. Other photos of this bullfight in the bull ring see "Miscellaneous"
In the Arles arena, matador Antonio Ordóñez faces a bull during the Corrida des vendanges in 1959. Dressed in an embellished "suit of lights" (*traje de luces*), he holds a *muleta*, its fabric gathered on the sand. Watching from their seats are Pablo Picasso, his wife Jacqueline and son Paulo, Jean Cocteau, John Richardson, Douglas Cooper, Francine Weisweiller, Lucia Bosè, and fellow matador Luis Miguel Dominguin, who was unable to fight due to injury.
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