PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Femme torero. II, from La Suite Vollard
etching, on Montval paper watermark Vollard, 1934, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with wider margins), published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939
Image: 11⁵⁄₈ x 9¹⁄₄ in. (295 x 235 mm.)
Sheet: 17⁵⁄₈ x 13³⁄₈ in. (448 x 340 mm.)

Bloch 220; Baer 426

Picasso, Braque and Léger: 20th Century Modern Masters: Exhibition of 100 Masterworks, The Forest Lawn Museum, Los Angeles, September 15, 2012 - January 1, 2013; The Oglethorpe Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 8 – December 8, 2013; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, September 24- November 27, 2016; The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York, October 6, 2019 – January 5, 2020.

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Lot Essay

The bull fight is a recurring theme in Picasso's art, a subject deeply rooted in his Spanish identity which he imbued with private symbolic meaning. Created during a time of great personal upheaval, in which his passionate affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter was causing an increasingly strained relationship with his first wife Olga Koklova, Femme Torero powerfully conveys the artist's emotional conflict. In the etching Marie-Thérèse is cast as a voluptuous picador swooning upon the back of a charging bull.