Few subjects captivated Pablo Picasso as deeply and enduringly as the corrida. From his earliest years in Málaga and Barcelona, the bullfight was woven into his artistic DNA — a primal theatre of life, death, courage, and beauty that he returned to again and again across seven decades of work. For Picasso, the corrida was never mere spectacle; it was myth, ritual, and metaphor, a stage on which the eternal drama of man and beast played out with operatic intensity.

Corrida / Bullfight II is an original lithograph after a 1955 drawing, published in 1966 — a period when Picasso, in his mid-seventies, was producing some of his most energetic and uninhibited work. The composition crackles with the immediacy of his draftsmanship: bold, gestural lines that conjure the heat, dust, and drama of the arena with breathtaking economy.

This lithograph distils one of the great obsessions of Picasso’s life into a single, electrifying image — a direct line to the artist’s most visceral and personal subject matter.

• Medium: Original lithograph (After Pablo Picasso)
• After: Original drawing, 1955
• Date of Publication: 1966
• Sheet Size: 7½ × 10 in
• Vendor: Pablo Picasso (After)

A powerful and intimate work from one of the most mythologised subjects in all of Picasso’s output — essential for any collector drawn to the raw energy of his late draftsmanship.