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To the Bulls with Picasso (A los Toros avec Picasso)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: André Sauret, Monte Carlo, 1961
Printer: text: Draeger Frères, [Paris]; lithographs: Mourlot Frères, [Paris]
Author: Jaime Sabartés (Spanish, 1881-1968)
Date: 1961
Dimensions:
Slipcase: H: 10 3/16 in. (258 mm); W: 13 1/16 in. (331 mm); Depth: 1 1/8 in. (29 mm).
Book: H: 9 15/16 in. (252 mm); W: 12 3/4 in. (324 mm); Depth: 7/8 in. (23 mm).
Page: H: 9 11/16 in. (246 mm); W: 12 1/2 in. (318 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 4 transfer lithographs on cream wove paper, incl. 1 in 24 colors.
Reproductions: 103 photolithographs of wash drawings on smooth white wove paper, some in colors; plus 1 line block reproduction of a drawing stamped on the front cover.
Text: photolithography in red.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.933
Label Text:Sabartes' text describes the ambience of the bull-fight ring -- it's sunny and shady sides -- and the enthusiasm of the aficionados. Picasso made the drawings (reproduced in this book) between July 11, 1959 and June 26, 1960, and most of them focused on the bull and the picador. The four lithographs depict La pique, Le Picador, Jeu de cape, and Les banderilles. In response to the publisher's request for more color in these black and white prints, Picasso obliged by coloring Le Picador with 24 crayons, which created a printing challenge for the printer Mourlot.
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