Óscar Domínguez, (1906-1957)

Hommage à Manolete

Hommage à Manolete, 1955
Lithograph in colors on Rives BFK paper, signed in pencil and numbered 77/200, with the blindstamp of the publisher, L'Ouvre Gravée, Paris, with full margins.
14 5/8 x 18in (37.1 x 45.7cm)
sheet 17 7/8 x 22in (45.4 x 55.8cm)

The artist's tribute to the famous matador Manolete (1917- August, 1947) who died following a goring to his upper right leg as he killed the fifth bull of the day, the Miura bull Islero, in the town of Linares, Spain.