Hubertus Hierl (1940) - Pablo Picasso mit Jacqueline beim Stierkampf in Fréjus (7.8.1966) - Silbergelatine Baryt

Vintage — artist’s print on AGFA silver gelatin paper (baryta) — excellent condition — artist’s stamp on the reverse, with the image number, title, location, and year of the photograph noted in pencil — hand-signed — COLLECTOR’S ITEM — with mat — supplied unframed

Photographer Hubertus Hierl (*1940) was able to photograph Pablo Picasso, with his consent, during a bullfight in Fréjus (southern France, 7 August 1966). A stroke of luck! The photographs show Picasso in a setting that remained one of his great lifelong subjects: bullfighting. The complete series comprises more than 100 photographs of Picasso and is the last extensive documentation of Picasso in public.
Werner Spies, Picasso expert and former director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, writes in the book “Picasso at the Bullfight”: “Hubertus Hierl’s photographs show anticipation, tension, and fear … they show what Picasso sees and feels.”

This is an opportunity to acquire Picasso photographs by Hubertus Hierl in the future (vintage — silver gelatin/baryta paper). — Images are matted — supplied unframed.

Provenance: directly from the artist’s archive — authenticity guaranteed.

Literature and illustration:
Picasso at the Bullfight. Photographs by Hubertus Hierl. Text by Werner Spies. Cologne, 2002
Picasso en la plaza de toros. Fotografias de Hubertus Hierl. Fundación Picasso. Museo Casa Natal — Málaga, 2006