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 sunlit studio of his villa La Californie in Cannes, Pablo Picasso receives a bullfighting lesson from the matador Luis Miguel Dominguin in 1959. With a cigarette in his mouth, Picasso holds a Spanish wicker mask of a bull, traditionally used for training, as Dominguin looks on attentively. Canvases and paintbrushes populate the room, where bright light from an arched window streams across the parquet floor, casting long, sharp shadows and creating a candid atmosphere.

Artworks:

"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

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

Bullfight, Bullfighters, Masks, Sculptures

Filename:

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