Hubertus Hierl (1940) - Pablo Picasso bei einem Stierkampf in Fréjus (7.8.1966) - VINTAGE - Silbergelatine (Baryt)

VINTAGE - Artist’s print on AGFA silver gelatin baryta paper - excellent print - excellent condition - handwritten on the back: image number - title, place and year of photograph - signed by the artist - COLLECTOR’S ITEM - matted - supplied without frame

With Pablo Picasso’s consent, photographer Hubertus Hierl photographed him during a bullfight in Fréjus (southern France - 7 August 1966). The photographs show Picasso in a setting that was among his great lifelong themes: the bullfight.
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.”

Provenance: directly from the artist’s estate - authenticity guaranteed.

Literature and illustration:
Picasso at the Bullfight. Photographs by Hubertus Hierl. Text by Werner Spies. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2002
Picasso en la plaza de toros. Fotografias de Hubertus Hierl. Fundación Picasso. Museo Casa Natal - Málaga 2006 - p. 116