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This large painting dating from 1955–6 depicts a crowd at a Spanish bullfight. Realised in muted tones of brown and ochre oil paint on canvas, the long, landscape-format composition is divided horizontally along the centre by a rail that separates the dense crowd of spectators from the startled white horse running from right to left across the foreground. The horse is cropped so that only the upper part of its body and outstretched head and neck are shown. The title, Corrida, is the Spanish term for bullfight, a shortened form of corrida de toros, literally ‘running of the bulls’. During the first stage of a bullfight, ‘picadors’ – horsemen with lances – jab at the bull. The loose, fleeing horse here may suggest that the picador has been unseated during this part of the event.