Lot 652
  • 652

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Trois poissons
  • stamped Madoura plein feu on the reverse
  • painted and glazed ceramic; plat long with crimped edges
  • 37.6 by 31.3cm., 14 3/4 by 12 3/8 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)

Exhibited

S-Hertogenbosch, Museum Het Kruithuis, Picasso Keramiek, 1985, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Valencia, Fundación Bancaja; Alicante, Fundación Bancaja & Tacoma, Tacoma Art Museum; Picasso, A Dialogue with Ceramics, Ceramics from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1998, no. 5, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Künzelsau, Museum Würth & Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum, Picasso, Sein Dialog mit der Keramik - Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, 1999, no. 3, illustrated in the catalogue
Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery & Dallas, Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Picasso in Clay: Three Decades of Ceramics from the Marina Picasso Collection, 2000, no. 2

Literature

Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1948, illustrated p. 186

Condition

The plate is sound. The slips are thickly applied and well-preserved. There is some stable craquelure in the clear top glaze. There are two small chips to the glaze on the reverse of the centre right edge. Three small gaps in the glaze on the underside which are original and due to the removal of the kiln stilts. This work is in overall good condition.
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