Picando

 

Frederic Wingate Corson

  1898 - 1967 (biography)

c. 1940  

etching 

7 x 5 1/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

pencil titled, lower right; number "5" in lower center 

 

cream laid 

 

 

11710 

$100.00 

"Picando" is the Spanish word for the bullfighting term "piccing," or "picar," referring to the action of a horseback picador using a lance to lightly stab the bull's neck, with the aim of irritating and ultimately slowing the animal down.