La Petit Corrida

Original color lithograph, plate-signed and dated in the stone
Catalogue references: Cramer 92; Mourlot 302; Bloch 839

Picasso does not take up lithography again until the end of November 1957. And here we see again his game with Galerie Louise.
On Saturday, November 23, he makes a beautiful bullfighting lithograph for XXe Siècle magazine, an art magazine founded in 1934 and directed until his death in 1974 by publisher Gualtieri di San Lazzaro. This historical number X of the second period of the magazine, entitled L’écriture plastique, includes lithographs by Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Serge Poliakoff and Zao Wou-ki, an engraving by Raoul Ubac, a zincography by Henri Michaux, and pochoirs by Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Victor Vasarely. The contribution of Picasso is a small lithograph of 20 by 29 cm with one of the themes that has been reproduced most in posters, the bullring. It is La petite Corrida (R. 713, M. 302) printed on vellum paper of 30.3 by 23.9 cm. It is made in four colors (yellow, blue, red and black) with lithographic pencil on paper transferred to stone.

Original lithograph in colors by Pablo Picasso, created on 23 November 1957 and printed by Mourlot, Paris, for the art revue XXe Siècle no. 10 (L’Écriture plastique, 1958), published by San Lazzaro.

This authentic lithograph, known as La Petite Corrida, measures 30 × 23.9 cm and was printed under Picasso’s direct supervision. It features a stylized bullfight scene seen from above, rendered in vivid yellow, vermilion red, ultramarine blue and black. The work is plate-signed “Picasso” and dated 23.11.57 in the lower left

Printed by: Mourlot, Paris
Published by: San Lazzaro, Cahiers d’Art
Catalogue raisonné references:
– Cramer 92
– Mourlot 302
– Bloch 839

A genuine original lithograph, Excellent condition, with strong colors and clean margins.
Sent traked and fully insured