La Plaza De Toros

La Plaza de TorosLa Plaza De Toros, in Madrid, has a capacity of 23,000 ecstatic aficionados; among them, recently, was artist LeRoy Neiman (on European assignment for Playboy), whose intense, impressionist use of color captures here the excitement and spectacle of the bull ring. The corrida begins with a flourish of trumpets heralding the ritual entrance of the matadors and their cuadrillas (crews) to salute the Presidential box. Neiman's sketch-pad notes describe the fight itself. "There...