Large ceramic plate 'Tête de chèvre de profil'

Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881 - Mougins 1973)

Madoura ceramics workshop, Vallauris. 1952. Cream-colored earthenware with relief decoration, engobed and colored glazed. Diameter 42.5 cm. On the underside with the embossed stamps MADOURA PLEIN FEU and EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO. One of 100 copies. - During Picasso's visit to Vallauris in 1946, a long and productive collaboration with the Madoura manufactory and its owners, Suzanne and Georges Ramié, began. The ceramics ranged from vases, sculptures, and plaques to a complete dinner service. Over 633 limited-edition pieces were produced over 24 years, all bearing the Madoura stamp. - Literature: WVZ Ramié 152 - Provenance: Private property, France - 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.