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

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)