A previously unknown complete set of Goya’s La Tauromaquia led Sotheby’s sale of Prints & Multiples in London on April 4.
Four bidders drove the hammer price to £420,000 (estimate £300,000-500,000). The 33 bullfighting prints are virtually flawless examples of the first and only contemporary edition of this series. They were printed on handmade paper, from large copperplates etched and aquatinted by Goya in 1815-16.