6. # AR MIQUEL BARCELÓ (Born 1957) The sonorous solitude of the Torero Volume in folio. Notebooks sewn together with a red cord, printed white cover, red silk folder lined with gold and pink silk on the first endpaper and gold on the last, reminiscent of a bullfighter's cape, red silk case. Illustrated with: 8 black engravings by Miquel Barceló on BFK Rives paper Total edition of 140 copies, all signed by Barceló, this one of the 100 nominative copies reserved for members of the Éditions du Solstice (no. 87), signed by the artist on the colophon. The book was conceived by Jean-Claude Meyer, with the assistance of Aimery Langlois-Meurinne and Jean de Kervasdoué, and produced by Olivier Andreotti. The text by José Bergamín, published in Madrid in 1981, was translated from the Spanish by Florence Delay, who also wrote the preface. Engravings printed by René Tazé and Bérengère Lipreau, Paris Book: 41 x 39 x 2.5 cm Box: 42 x 39.5 x 4 cm Provenance Collection of a Parisian bibliophile "I like bulls for what they tell. The anti-bull fashion seems stupid to me. I would never go hunting or shoot animals, but I have been to bullfights and I'm thinking of going again. On my property in Mallorca, I have, among other animals, red bulls that live freely in the countryside. I neither bullfight nor eat them. I'm not a breeder either, I have these few wild specimens whose function is to clear the field of weeds" (Miquel Barceló, El País, 19 November 2015).