Picasso Original Ceramics

Our current collection includes 98 individual works covering a broad range of picasso s techniques and subjects.

Picasso original ceramics.

This dedicated sale of picasso s editioned works includes over 50 lots of the artist s prints and ceramics spanning the artist s career and a variety of his most famous motifs. Madoura picasso ceramics are highly collectible in their own right. He is famous for his role in pioneering cubism with georges braque and for his melancholy blue period pieces. Over the past fifty years park west museum has developed one of the largest collections of picasso ceramics in the world.

Original signed picasso lithographs and prints are a sure investment. There picasso met the owners of the madoura pottery workshop and began a collaboration with the studio that lasted until his death in 1973. Ceramics pablo picasso became enamored by ceramics in 1946 when the 60 year old artist stumbled upon a pottery fair near his summer home in the south of france. Pablo picasso art paintings.

Picasso designed 633 different ceramic editions between 1947 and 1971 with a number of variants and unique pieces resulting from these initial works. Ceramics by picasso is the first experience of mass production yet designer ceramics. Sotheby s is pleased to present picasso prints ceramics. Pablo picasso madoura ceramic plate jacqueline au chevalet ramié 333.

Pablo picasso oil original art paintings. Pablo picasso revolutionized the art world and to many is the artist of the 20th century. Between 1946 and 1973 pablo picasso created a breathtaking collection of original ceramic works. All of picasso s ceramics were produced at the madoura pottery run by the ramie family in vallauris in the south of france.

During the casting phase a stamp was made on the reverse side of the item bottom. Empreinte ceramique originale de picasso. The term picasso ceramics generally refers to the pitchers plates vases and plaques that were recreated by the artisans at the madoura pottery in the south of france after ceramics personally decorated by pablo picasso. With estimates ranging from 1 000 to over 30 000 this sale presents a diverse selection of works by picasso suitable to new and experienced collectors.

Like engravings there a few identical original copies here. Pablo picasso was undoubtedly an extraordinary 20th century painter but i also feel that in the field of abstract impressionism his ceramics were also remarkable.