Le Taureau (Bull)
Pablo Picasso, Le Taureau (Bull), 1946, lithograph on cream wove paper, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, © artist or other rights holder, 50.1
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- Title
Le Taureau (Bull)
- Related Titles
original language: Le Taureau
translated: Bull
- Artist
- Related People
- Date
1946
- Medium
lithograph on cream wove paper
- Edition
33/50
- State
11th state
- Catalogue Raisonné
Bloch 389
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 11 7/16 in x 16 3/4 in; sheet: 12 3/4 in x 17 3/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
edition: 33/50, graphite, lower left
signature: Picasso, graphite, lower right
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
planographic print
- Culture
Spanish
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund
- Accession Number
50.1
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
No animal form is perhaps more spare yet evocative than Pablo Picasso's Le Taureau (Bull), an animal that held national and personal significance to the Spaniard. From December 1945 to January 1946, Picasso developed eleven lithographs depicting a solitary bull in profile. The first of the series is highly detailed and naturalistic; in each successive print, the artist pared the animal's form down to its essential elements, ending with a simple outline that nonetheless eloquently captures the power and bulk of the bovine.
- Exhibitions
2017 Kingdom Animalia: Animals in Print from Dürer to Picasso Portland Art Museum
