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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Taureau

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bronze
9 x 17.2 x 6.5 cm (3 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Conceived in 1957, the Comité Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work. This work is from an edition of 2. 

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired from the artist by May 1978)
Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
Private Collection (acquired from the above in March 2000)

Literature

Werner Spies,Picasso: The Sculptures, Berlin, 2000, pp. 381, 416, 417 (illustrated, p. 381)

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Essay

This bronze bull Taureau (1957) was cast in an edition of one two. Through his shaping and reworking of the original raw material, Picasso plays with the concept of the animal, abstracting it until the bulls’ features are pared down to their most simplified forms. By reducing the animal to its core, Picasso distills myth, history, and identity into his own a singular, timeless emblem.

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