Venues:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection;
Milan: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, May 12–July 26, 1985;
Bari: Castello Svevo, April 5–May 31, 1986;
London: Warwick Arts Trust, September 24–October 26, 1986;
Antibes:Ville d'Antibes, Musée Picasso, December 10, 1986–February 8, 1987;
Madrid: Museo del Prado, Cason del Buen Retiro, April 30–June 6, 1987;
Barcelona: Palau de la Verreina, June 30–August 25, 1987 and to
New Brunswick, Fredericton: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, May 15–August 29, 1993.

Curator:
Fred Licht (exhibition organized by the Arthur Ross Foundation, New York).

Artists:
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes and Pablo Picasso.

Exhibition description:
Tauromaquia: Goya – Picasso was the first temporary exhibition at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. The show confronted Goya’s and Picasso’s different treatments of the bullfight, a traditional scene from their Spanish homelands. Featuring monochrome etchings, this exhibition posited the “tauromaquia” as a combination of beauty and violence, fusing triumphal heroicism with dark drama. Such a union allowed Goya and Picasso, two pivotal modern artists, to contemplate various visual compositions, as well as to express different contours of human experience.

Catalogue:
Licht, Fred. Tauromaquia. Venice: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Arnaldo Mondadori Editore, 1985.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1986 .09, GUGG PGC 1986 .05

Two separate catalogues, in English and Italian. Catalogues include introductions by Clifford Ross (Executive Vice President, Arthur Ross Foundation) and Thomas M. Messer (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), essays by Fred Licht and Dore Ashton, as well as the exhibition checklist.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1985 .04, GUGG PGC 1985 .07.

Each venue published a version of the catalogue in its own language:
Spanish (library location: GUGG PGC 1987 .03)
Catalan (library location: GUGG PGC 1987 .02)
French (GUGG PGC 1986 .05)
English (GUGG PGC 1993 .02)