Maverick Mist

Bullfighter
Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas (1970)

"Picasso's father took him to see his first bullfight in 1889, when he was eight years old. The spectacle made a deep impression on him, and he made it the subject of his very first painting that year.  In 1934, he took up the bullfight as a theme, using it as a metaphor for life and death.  Here, Picasso painted himself as a bullfighter with his usual passion for color and feverish strokes.  Nearing 90, however, his stare has a tinge of world weariness."

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