Pablo Picasso

From 1966 on, “Musketeers” form a heterogeneous, recurring group in Picasso's oeuvre.

The painting Matador and Nude Woman fits into the two overarching themes informing Picasso's entire oeuvre: one is bullfighting, the other is male-female relationship. In his late works, the woman is often unclad while the man plays various roles.

The artist started to make ceramics after 1946. In 1948 he moved to Vallauris, a small town in the South of France, famed for its pottery tradition. He made his works at the local Madoura manufactory. Though he moved from the town in 1955, he kept in contact with Madoura.

Recovering from surgery in 1965, Picasso, in the middle of his 80s, sets to drawing and painting with a renewed effort in his new studio.