Lot 939
  • 939

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Visage
  • dated 17.1.65 and numbered 10/100, inscribed with the workshop number U 109, and stamped with pottery marks Empreinte Originale de Picasso, Madoura Plein Feu
  • Terre de faïence ceramic
  • 42 by 42cm., 16½ by 16½in.
  • Conceived on 17th January 1965 and cast in an edition of 100 by the Madoura Pottery, Vallauris.

Provenance

Sotheby's Olympia, London, 23 March 2005, lot 192

Literature

Alain Ramié, Picasso. Catalogue de l'œuvre céramique édité 1947-1971, Vallauris, 1988, no. 532, another example illustrated p. 266

Condition

Apart from some handling marks, this work is in excellent condition.
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