Lot 64
  • 64

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • GRAND VASE PÉKINÉ
  • numéroté 8/25 et porte le cachet Empreinte originale de Picasso. Madoura plein feu (sous la base)

  • vase en terre de faïence blanche
  • H. : 36,5 cm ; 14 3/8 in.
  • L. : 44,5 cm ; 17 1/2 in.

Provenance

Atelier Madoura, Vallauris
Collection particulière, France (acquis auprès du précédent)
Collection particulière, France (offert par le précédent en 1976)
Par descendance au propriétaire actuel

Literature

Georges Bloch, Picasso. Tome III : Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé céramique 1949-1971, Berne, 1972, no. 81, un autre exemplaire reproduit p. 68
Alain Ramié, Picasso. Catalogue de l'œuvre céramique édité 1947-1971, Vallauris, 1988, no. 370, un autre exemplaire reproduit p. 190

Condition

The vase is in very good original condition. A close inspection reveals only some light time-staining, some small scattered media marks and a few tiny nicks around the rim of the sculpture's base.
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Catalogue Note

numbered '8/25'  and stamped 'Empreinte originale de Picasso. Madoura plein feu' (on the underside), incised white ceramic. Conceived in 1956 and executed in a numbered edition of 25.