After Pablo Picasso

Maison R&C Commissaires-Priseurs Associes Paris: Bijoux, Montres de Collection, Maroquinerie de Luxe & Argenterie, December 21, 2018 [Lot 307]

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jewelry as Sculpture as Jewelry, 1973 for a similar edition

Jewelry as Sculpture as Jewelry, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1973, no. 102

Clare Siaud and Pierre Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes, Artist's Jewels, Hommage à François Hugo, Les Cyprès, Aix-en- Provence, 2001, pp. 188, 150, 192

Diane Venet, From Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Skira, Milan, 2011, p. 37

Diane Venet, Bijoux d'Artistes, de Calder à Koons, la collection idéale de Diane Venet, Flammarion, Paris, 2018, p. 157

Clare Finn, 'The Fascination of Silver, the Lure of Gold: Picasso's Collaboration with François Hugo,' in Emmanuel Guigon and Manon Lecaplain, Picasso I Les Joies D'artista, Fundació Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 2021, pp. 73, 77, 78

Pablo Picasso undertook a remarkable collaboration with goldsmith François Hugo at the end of 1956, designing large compotiers in silver. Rond is one of the pieces that developed out of this partnership - a face trapped within a circle.

After Picasso finished the four compotiers it is believed his muse Jacqueline Roque requested that François Hugo transform them into medallions (1967-1970) in the same motif as the compotiers, of which Picasso agreed Hugo could do a limited edition. Hugo gave Jacqueline an example of Rond in 1971, though there is no formal record of this. (Emmanuel Guigon and Manon Lecaplain, Picasso

I Les Joies D'artista, Fundació Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 2021, pp. 73, 77-78)