The Bullfight (Courses de taureaux) / Pablo Picasso
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1994/1.70
- Title
- The Bullfight (Courses de taureaux)
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Artist Nationality
- Spanish
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1973
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1934
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Haute-Normandie (region)
- Eure (department)
- Boisgeloup (city)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Haute-Normandie (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Eure (department)
- Creation Place 5
- Boisgeloup (city)
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation
- Style/Group/Movement
- Cubist
- Inscription
- Signed lower left: (illegible)/3 Aout XXXIV Picasso
- Dimensions
- 44.13 cm x 57.63 cm x 4.92 cm (17 3/8 in. x 22 11/16 in. x 1 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- A bull in the center charges to the left toward a horse rearing up with a bullfighter on its back. The bullfighter leans forward to plunge a spear into the bull's shoulder area. Flags and spectator stands lie in the background.
- Subject Matter
- The Bullfight was with Picasso's dealer at the Paul Rosenberg & Co. New York, the date is not specifcally documented. In 1973 it was in an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, according to the sticker on the back of the liner, the given owner is the Carey Walker Foundation. After being donated to the museum, "The Bullfight" was in an exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain from Oct. 9, 1993 to Jan. 9, 1994. The transportation sticker to Madrid, Spain with the University of Michigan as a lender, was presumably connected to that loan.
- Anne F. Malley
- History of Art 399
- -supervised by A. Dixon
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1347 x 953
- File Size
- 167 KB
- Record
- 1994/1.70
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"The Bullfight (Courses de taureaux); Pablo Picasso." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1994-sl-1.70/1994_1.70.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
