Faience jug 'Hibou'

Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881 - Mougins 1973)

Madoura ceramics workshop, Vallauris. 1954. Cream-colored ceramic shard, white glazed, painted blue. H. 24.5 cm. Stamp on the bottom: MADOURA PLEIN FEU and EDITION PICASSO and inscribed: EDITION PICASSO MADOURA. (black). Small chip on the base ring, minimal small chips. 'Owl-Jug' from an edition of 500 copies. Picasso’s visit to Vallauris in 1946 marked the beginning of a long and productive collaboration with the Madoura workshop and its owners, Suzanne and Georges Ramié. The ceramics ranged from vases, sculptures, and plaques to a complete dinner service. Over the course of 24 years, more than 633 pieces were produced in limited editions, all bearing the Madoura stamp - Literature: Catalogue raisonné Ramié 253 - Universal genius, one of the most important artists in the history of art, who made groundbreaking achievements in almost all artistic genres, in the most important collections of the whole world. P. studied from 1885 at the academies of Barcelona and Madrid. In the first years of the 20th century Picasso succeeded after difficult beginnings to establish himself in the art metropolis Paris. His immense creativity and stylistic diversity, in addition to the sheer abundance of creations made P. the unrivaled painter prince of an entire era. Mus.: New York (MoMA, Metrop. Mus.), Paris (Centre Pompidou) Mus. Picasso), Barcelona (Mus. Picasso), London (Tate Modern), Berlin (Neue Nat.-Gal., Mus. Berggruen), Chicago (Art Institute), St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Moskau (Pushkin Mus.), Madrid (Mus. Reina Sofia), Basel a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, Zervos: P. P. Cat. rais., Bloch: Cat. de l’oeuvre gravé et lithographié a. others.