Lot 46
  • 46

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Taureau (A. R. 255)
  • ceramic
  • height: 305mm 12in
Terre de faïence pitcher, 1955, numbered 4/100, incised 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', painted, with the Edition Picasso and Madoura stamps

Exhibited

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, Picasso Ceramics: The Attenborough Collection, 16 June-30 September 2007, no. 54

Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, Out of Clay, 23 July-11 September 1988

Literature

Marilyn McCully, ‘La Transgression à l’oevure : Picasso, la Céramique et la Méditerranée’ in Picasso: céramiste et la Méditerranée (exhibition catalogue), Chapelle des Pénitents noirs, centre d’art d’Aubagune, Aubagne and Cité de la céramique, Sèvres, 2013-14, illustrated in colour p. 35

Marilyn McCully and Michael Raeburn, Picasso Ceramics: The Attenborough Collection, Leicester, 2011, illustrated in colour pages 104-105

Condition

The ceramic is good condition, faint traces of soiling and a few scuffs.
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