Vintage Toros magazine from July 13, 1958, 16 pages, 8.5 x 10.75, featuring a cover image of famed Spanish bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguin and Jaime Ostos, signed in the upper left corner in black ballpoint, “Picasso.” The cover is also signed in ink by the two pictured matadors. In very good condition, with general handling wear, and various folds and creases, none of which affect Picasso's signature.
Dominguin was a friend of Pablo Picasso, who created a portrait of the bullfighter on July 13, 1959. The bullfight was a subject Picasso returned to frequently, particularly from the mid-1950s, and also one of his favorite spectator sports. Picasso, who had been taken to the Malaga bullring from an early age, was an avid follower of bullfights and after moving to Provence would often travel to the arenas of Arles, Nîmes or Vallauris to see them. Picasso’s friend and biographer Roland Penrose has written that, apart from his enjoyment of the action, ‘the main involvement for Picasso was not so much with the parade and the skill of the participants but with the ancient ceremony of the precarious triumph of man over beast…The man, his obedient ally the horse, and the bull were all victims of an inextricable cycle of life and death.’
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