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Pablo Picasso

Vase chouette

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collector

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Vase chouette 


painted, glazed and incised ceramic vase

height: 10¾ in.

27.3 cm.

Executed circa 1950-1951; this work is unique.


Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Estate of the artist
Jacqueline Roque, France (the artist's wife; acquired from the above)
Hammer Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above  in April 2005 by the present owner
Vallauris, Galerie Sassi Milici, Hommage à Jacqueline Picasso, 1990, no. 66, illustrated
New York, Hammer Galleries, Picasso – Unique Ceramics, 1996
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Picasso – Unique Ceramics, 1996-97
Washington D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Samuel Rose and Julie Walters Collection, 2015-16, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Vallauris, Musée Magnelli, Musée de la céramique, Picasso, céramiste à Vallauris - pièces uniques, Chiron, 2004, no. 99, pp. 30 and 134, illustrated in color