Framed Bullfight Poster: Antonio Ordóñez, Esteban (Steve) Cohen, El Cordobés

Description: Framed Bullfight Poster: Antonio Ordóñez, Esteban (Steve) Cohen, El Cordobés BULLFIGHT POSTER 1966 PALMA (MALLORCA) BULL RING FEATURING TWO OF SPAIN’S FOREMOST MATADORS AND AN UNKNOWN JEWISH MATADOR Plaza De Toros De Palma DOMINGO 2 OCTOBRE 1966 A LAS 5 TARDE 6 HERMOSOS Y BRAVOS TOROS 6 DE LA FAMOSA GANADERIA DEL EXCMO SR. CONDE DE MAYALDE DE MADRID ANTONIO ORDÓÑEZ ESTEBAN COHEN MANUEL BENITEZ EL CORDOBÉS CON SUS CORRESPONDIENTES CUADRILLAS AMENIZARA EL EXPECTACULE UNA BANDA DE MUSICA CARTEL CUMBRE DEL ANO The poster is mounted in a black wood frame. The lithographed area extends beyond the visible portion. Frame dimensions: Outer: 21.25 x 37.5 inches. Inner 19.25 x 35.5 inches. Important Note. I strongly suspect that this poster is actually a custom-made souvenir in which the name of the middle matador is a hand-printed overlay on the original lithograph. It was probably made contemporaneously with the advertised event. Antonio Ordóñez Araujo (16 February 1932 – 19 December 1998) was a Spanish bullfighter.who was generally considered to be the first-ranked bullfighter of the 1950s and ’60s. Early life Antonio Jiménez Ordóñez Araujo was born in Ronda, Spain, on 16 February 1932. His father was Cayetano Ordóñez, called Niño de la Palma, the prototype for the character of Pedro Romero, the matador in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises. Career He was one of the top bullfighters of his time. As a matador, Ordóñez fought over 3,000 bulls. He retired in 1968, having fought over 60 bullfights in that year alone, but came back until finally retiring in 1988. Social life Ordóñez met a number of writers and actors, and he also starred in a few films. Antonio was a long time friend of Ernest Hemingway, whom he called Father Ernesto. Hemingway wrote an account of Ordóñez's rivalry with the matador Luis Miguel Dominguín (also Ordóñez's brother-in-law) titled The Dangerous Summer. Ordóñez also befriended Hollywood movie star Orson Welles, whose ashes were buried on Ordóñez's estate after Welles's death. Family Ordóñez was married to Carmen Cristina González. They had two children, Ana Belén Ordóñez and Carmen Ordóñez. Carmen married the matador Paquirri (killed by a bull in 1984). His grandchildren, by daughter Carmen, are bullfighters Francisco Rivera Ordóñez and Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez. Death Ordóñez died of liver cancer on 19 December 1998. Legacy He was honored with a monument at the gates of La Malagueta bullring in Málaga and his ashes lie beneath the "toril" gate, opened to allow the bull to enter, in the oldest bullring in the world, in his home town of Ronda. His family owned the arena. There is a statue of him outside the arena. Manuel Benítez Pérez (born 4 May 1936), more commonly known as El Cordobés (The Cordovan), is a Spanish bullfighter, matador, and actor active in the 1960s who brought an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style to the bullring. Career One of the original techniques practiced by El Cordobés was first shown at Anjucar. He waved his banderilla (Columpio) away, broke his banderillas down to 'pencil length', and standing with his back to the bull as it charged, moved his right leg out moments before the bull was upon him, causing the bull to swerve and allowing El Cordobés a moment to slam in the banderillas from just behind the left horn. This maneuver was repeated in bullfights across Spain, sometimes with even more dangerous variations, such as standing with his back to the barerra and driving in the banderillas after the horns passed either side of him. On May 20, 1964, when he made his first appearance at Las Ventas in Madrid, the bullfight ended with the near-fatal goring of El Cordobés on the horns of the bull Impulsivo. Twenty-two days later El Cordobés fought again. By the time of his first retirement, in 1971, El Cordobés had become the highest-paid matador in history.[citation needed] After eight years of retirement, he returned to bullfighting in 1979. Following an incident in 1983, when a bull that he was about to fight killed an espontáneo (bystander who jumps into bullring), El Cordobés was criticized by the press for allowing it to happen. El Cordobés continued to make occasional appearances as a matador until 2000, when he retired permanently. He also acted in several motion pictures. El Cordobés lives in near seclusion near Córdoba. In 2016 he appeared with the woman bullfighter Conchi Ríos and Antonio Puerta in Cehegín in Murcia. In art, entertainment, and media An early biography, Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, by journalists Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, was published in 1968 by Simon & Schuster. El Cordobés' story was also the basis for the musical Matador (1987) by Mike Leander and Eddie Seago. Poet Mike O'Connor included "Canción del Cordobés", about the matador's breakout performances in Mexico City in 1964, in his poetry volume When the Tiger Weeps, (2005). A song titled "El Cordobés" was performed by the Norwegian rap artist Diaz. Esteban Cohen. No information on this matador (Steve Cohen?) could be located on the internet. The eponymous hedge fund manager and Mets owner is probably too young to be merit consideration. CONDITION: Poster and Frame appear without flaws. 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