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Period: 1940s
Service Visage Noir (Black Face Service)
Service Visage Noir (Black Face Service)

Service Visage Noir (Black Face Service)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in BRUCE, ACT

Pablo Picasso Service visage noir (Black Face Service), 1948 Madoura ceramic round dish of white earthenware clay, engobe decoration, knife engraved and glaze (red, green, white, br...

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1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Service Visage Noir (Black Face Service)
Service Visage Noir (Black Face Service)

Service Visage Noir (Black Face Service)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in BRUCE, ACT

Pablo Picasso Service visage noir (Black Face Service), 1948 Madoura ceramic round dish of white earthenware clay, engobe decoration, knife engraved and glaze (red, green, white, br...

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1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

"Untitled Bottles" Laurence Vail, Dada, Surrealist, Modernist College Bottles
"Untitled Bottles" Laurence Vail, Dada, Surrealist, Modernist College Bottles

"Untitled Bottles" Laurence Vail, Dada, Surrealist, Modernist College Bottles

Located in New York, NY

Laurence Vail Untitled Bottles, circa 1942 Collaged glass bottles 8 3/4 x 5 inches, 12 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches Provenance The artist Art of the Century, New York Dwight Ripley Estate of Dwight Ripley By Descent, New York Acquired from the above, 2025 Exhibited New York, Art of This Century, Laurence Vail: Bottles, December 1942. Greenwich, CT, Bruce Museum, Connecticut Modern: Art, Design and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1960, September 23, 2023-January 7, 2024. Literature Susan Davidson, Peggy Guggenheim and Frederick Kiesler: The Story of Art of This Century, Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004, p. 319-320. Laurence Vail was born in Paris on January 28, 1891, to American parents. His father, Eugène Vail, was a painter, renowned for his depictions of Brittany and Venice. For many years throughout his childhood, Vail accompanied his father on his travels to Venice. Having initially studied in France, he moved to England to study literature at Oxford University. Upon his return to Paris, he devoted himself to writing plays and essays, translating books from French, painting, sculpting, and creating collages. In the late 1920s he was considered a main figure of Paris's flourishing intellectual and social circles, to the extent that he became known as the "King of Bohemia." He associated with writers and artists, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, who crowded the cafes of Montparnasse. In 1922 he married Peggy Guggenheim, who was, in his eyes, a young woman to whom he could teach art, life, and literature. After the birth of their first son, Sindbad, the couple travelled to Italy and Egypt. In 1926 they went to Switzerland, where their second child, Pegeen, was born. The family settled in Pramousquier in the south of France, where Vail started writing the novel Murder! Murder!, a cutting satire about his marriage, published in 1932. He also continued to paint, creating a series of works which were exhibited for the first time in 1926 at the Parisian boutique on the rue du Colisée managed by Guggenheim and her business partner, Mina Loy...

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Dada 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Paper, Mixed Media

Large, Cast Bronze Doe
Large, Cast Bronze Doe

Large, Cast Bronze Doe

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Substantial, sensitively molded, graceful circa 1940, hand-cast, bronze sculpture of a doe.

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1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

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Speckled Black Face, 1948
Speckled Black Face, 1948

Speckled Black Face, 1948

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Palo Alto, CA

Pablo Picasso, Speckled Black Face, 1948 A.R. 49, is a beautiful and early example from Picasso’s groundbreaking ceramic collaboration with the renowned Madoura Pottery in Vallauris,...

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Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures

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Clay, Ceramic

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