Lot 56
  • 56

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Petit buste de femme (A. R. 523)
  • ceramic
Terre de faïence plaque, 1964, numbered 6/100, painted, with the Madoura and Empreinte Originale de Picasso 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 p. 157

Condition

The ceramic is in good condition, the upper left corner is worn (now softly rounded), a short crack verso (appears to be inherent to the production).
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