Important Picasso Ceramics featuring Property from The Nina Miller Collection
Important Picasso Ceramics featuring Property from The Nina Miller Collection
A Complete Set of Twenty-Four Silver Plates, accompanied by an additional example of Visage aux mains
Lot Closed
October 13, 01:07 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
A Complete Set of Twenty-Four Silver Plates, accompanied by an additional example of Visage aux mains
The complete set of 24 repoussé silver plates, conceived in ceramic by Picasso between 1956 and 1967 and executed in silver by François Hugo and Pierre Hugo in a numbered edition of 20 plus 6 hors commerce, 2 exemplaire d'artiste and 2 exemplaire d'auteur, each with the artist's stamped signature, numbered, stamped with the silversmith’s mark on the underside, with the original wooden presentation boxes; with Visage aux mains, repoussé silver plate, 1957, an unnumbered proof before the edition, with the Empreinte Originale de Picasso and 667 Francois Hugo Orfevre stamps on the underside, published by François and Pierre Hugo, Paris, with the original wooden presentation box
1. Dormeur – numbered 8/20, 425mm 16¾in
2. Visage aux feuilles – exemplaire d’auteur 1/2, 426mm 16¾in
3. Faune cavalier – exemplaire d’artiste 1/2, 425mm 16¾in
4. Visage aux mains – numbered 8/20, 420mm 16½in
5. Visage tourmenté – numbered 18/20, 418mm 16½in
6. Visage de faune – H.C. 5/6, 260mm 10¼in
7. Joueur de flûte et cavalier – H.C. 3/6, 368mm 14½in
8. Un poisson – H.C. 3/6, 430mm 16⅞in
9. Profil de Jacqueline – H.C. 3/6, 421mm 16½in
10. Tête de taureau – H.C. 1/6, 420mm 16½in
11. Visage larvé - exemplaire d’auteur 2/2, 425mm 16¾in
12. Visage en forme d’horloge – H.C. 3/6, 430mm 17in
13. Visage géométrique aux traits – numbered 18/20, 415mm 16⅜in
14. Horloge à la langue – numbered 6/20, 425mm 16¾in
15. Jacqueline au chevalet – H.C. 1/6, 425mm 16⅝in
16. Tête au masque – numbered 20/20, 315mm 12⅜in
17. Visage au carton ondulé – H.C. 1/6, 427mm 16⅞in
18. Centaure – numbered 20/20, 418mm 16½in
19. Visage aux taches – exemplaire d’artiste 1/2, 418mm 16½in
20. Visage dans un carré – H.C. 1/6, 418mm 16½in
21. Tête en forme d’horloge - exemplaire d’auteur 1/2, 430mm 16⅞in
22. Vallauris – H.C. 1/6, 412mm 16⅛in
23. Joie de vivre – H.C. 1/6, 427mm 16¾in
24. Tête géométrique – exemplaire d’artiste 2/2, 355mm 14in
25. Visage aux mains – unnumbered proof, 423mm 16⅝in
All works are accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Pierre Hugo.
Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso
Sotheby's London, 5 February, 2020, Lot 342
Acquired from the above by the present owner