Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Four Faces Pitcher, Vallauris, France, 1959, edition of 300, white earthenware clay pitcher decorated in oxides on white enamel in brown and black, inscribed "EDITION PICASSO 60/300 MADOURA" and stamped "EDITION PICASSO" and "MADOURA" on the underside, ht. 9 in.
Literature: Ramié, 437.
Note: In 1946, Pablo Picasso visited a ceramics exhibition in Vallauris, an area in southeastern France that had been known for its pottery production for centuries. When he moved to the region and established a relationship with Georges and Suzanne Ramié, owners of the Madoura pottery studio, they gave him full access to the tools and resources needed to express his creativity with ceramics. In exchange, for 25 years the Ramié family had the exclusive rights to produce and sell reproductions of his original works. To this day, Georges Ramié’s Picasso’s Ceramics remains as the authoritative catalogue raisonné for this body of work. Picasso created over 4,000 ceramic objects, many playful and whimsical in nature, with subjects ranging from Greek mythological figures to animal shapes and face motifs, among others. Reproductions of his work by the Ramié family remain a strong area of collecting and represent an affordable entry point into collecting Picasso’s work.
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