Acclaimed and often contested artist Eric Fischl is currently exhibiting a new series of eight large
paintings titled Corrida in Ronda, featuring images of
bullfighters engaging in the Corrida Goyesca.
In this work, Bearden also makes use of literary sources: Federico García Lorca's «Lament for the Death of a
Bullfighter» (his Kootz Gallery colleague Robert Motherwell was also
painting works on Spanish themes at this time) and Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel.5