Lot 31
  • 31

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Personnages et têtes (A. R. 242)
  • ceramic
  • height: 560mm 22in
Terre de faïence vase, 1954, numbered 5/25, partially painted, with the Madoura and Empreinte Originale de Picasso stamps

Exhibited

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, Picasso Ceramics: The Attenborough Collection, 16 June-30 September 2007, no. 52

University of Sussex, Brighton, A Gardner Centre Exhibition at the Barlow Gallery, The Ceramics of Pablo Picasso from the collection of Sir Richard & Lady Attenborough, 5-27 May 1989

Literature

Marilyn McCully, ‘La Transgression à l’oevure : Picasso, la Céramique et la Méditerranée’ in Picasso: céramiste et la Méditerranée (exhibition catalogue), Chapelle des Pénitents noirs, centre d’art d’Aubagune, Aubagne and Cité de la céramique, Sèvres, 2013-14, illustrated in colour p. 36

Marilyn McCully and Michael Raeburn, Picasso Ceramics: The Attenborough Collection, Leicester, 2011, illustrated in colour pages 100-101

Condition

The ceramic is in good condition.
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