Lot 28
  • 28

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Le barbu (A. R. 217)
  • ceramic
  • height: 320mm 12 5/8 in
Terre de faïence pitcher, 1953, from the edition of 500, partially glazed and painted, with the Edition Picasso and Madoura stamps

Exhibited

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 and Michael Raeburn, Picasso Ceramics: The Attenborough Collection, Leicester, 2011, illustrated in colour pages 86-87

Condition

The ceramic is in good condition apart from a crack at the base of the handle (possibly a firing fault and inherent to production).
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