Pablo Picasso (after) - Torero / 1970 / licensed print -

Offset Lithograph Pablo Picasso / Torero / 16 octobre 1954.
Copyright @ Private Collection. Courtesy Fundation Almine y Bernad Ruiz-Picasso
Published by @ Museo Picasso Málaga.

Original poster Pablo Picasso / Torero / 16 octubre 1954.

About the artist:

Pablo Ruiz Picasso, the archetype of “the artist,” genius, lively, womanizer... creator of styles, a legend in his own lifetime (which he helped to forge) and, without a doubt, one of the greatest artists in history.
He left his mark on each of his many periods, from blue, pink, and black and white to the cubism he invented, then surrealism, abstraction... and because of this immeasurable talent and his enormous output, we are looking at the most famous artist in the history of art.

Picasso remains relevant because he was the central figure of all 20th-century art, an experimental artist but one linked to the past and with a body of work that continually admits new interpretations. He was perhaps also the most influential artist. Contemporary art is what it is thanks to (or because of) him.

We cannot speak of a conventional biography. He stamped his life on his canvases, and between him and his friends, the cultural elite of the 20th century, they created their own life, their own legend. Biographical details seem irrelevant in the face of the grandeur of his work, although it is riddled with myths, from the puff of smoke that gave life to a newborn artist to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

We cannot speak of a specific style. His stylistic freedom allowed him to move from one style to another without transition. His genius was the main material of his art: in just seconds he could create a masterpiece. He represented the most physical branch of contemporary art, the need to paint, to create in a material form.

He was also a celebrity: fame and financial success, but also artistic recognition. And this translated into an endless list of lovers, wives, models... His connection between sex and art is evident.

It is estimated that Picasso produced some 13,500 paintings and designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations, and 300 sculptures or ceramics, as well as having the largest number of museums named after him (“Picasso Museums”).

About the artwork:

In 2006, to commemorate the 50th Goyesca bullfight, the Real Maestranza negotiated with the heirs of Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973) to reproduce, for the poster, one of the many works that the Malaga-born genius dedicated to the world of bullfighting. The work in question is *Torero* (1970), an oil on canvas painted three years before his death.
In 2006, to commemorate the 50th Goyesca bullfight, the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda negotiated with the heirs of Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973) to reproduce one of the many works that the Malaga-born genius dedicated to the world of bullfighting for the event’s poster. The work in question is “Torero” (1970), an oil on canvas painted three years before his death. The choice could not have been more appropriate, as the portrait echoes the spirit of the era and the portraits Francisco de Goya painted of the famous and historic Ronda bullfighters Pedro Romero and his brother José between 1795 and 1798.

Picasso’s passion for bulls, bullfighting, and its mythology is universally known. This passion, fostered from his childhood at the Málaga bullring when his father and uncle took him there, remained a constant throughout his career and grew into a sort of longing during his later years. It is said that his first hero was José Sánchez del Campo “Cara-Ancha” and that as a child he wanted to be a picador. In fact, one of his earliest portraits is that of a picador. Bullfighting iconography is present in Picasso’s work throughout all its phases, in his paintings as well as in his ceramics, sculptures, and prints. He was particularly obsessed with the myth of the Minotaur and never ceased to recreate highly personal symbols related to the bull. He was known to appear at the bullrings in Arles and Nîmes to watch bullfights, where it was customary for the bullfighters—aware of his great passion for the sport—to dedicate their performances to him.

Size: 48 x 73 cm.

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