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Pablo PicassoQuatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes)1947
1947
$20,000
£15,179.70
€17,495.86
CA$28,028.48
A$31,282.20
CHF 16,458.01
MX$379,992.33
NOK 208,643.71
SEK 195,264.37
DKK 130,577.71
About the Item
Picasso Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes), 1947 is a wondrous mixture of color and charm. In the center of the dish are three fish, each a different color. Each fish is colored brightly with brown stripes running across their bodies. They are placed as such to give the impression of food on a platter. Picasso thus creates a multi-sensory experience with this ceramic dish. Not only are our eyes greeted by the beauty of the ceramic, we can also imagine how the fish may taste. The face of the dish is painted a muted yellow tone which contrasts beautifully with the color of the fish. Surrounding the plate is a border colored in brick red. This shade effortlessly frames the dish, drawing the eye to its main focus.
Created in 1947, this Picasso Madoura ceramic rectangular dish white earthenware clay, decoration in engobes and oxides under glaze; brick-red, yellow, blue, pink, green, black is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EDITION PICASSO' pottery stamps on verso is numbered from the edition of 200.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Picasso Four Polychrome Fishes (Quatre Poissons Polychromes ), 1947 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).
Ramié, Alain. Picasso Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1971. Madoura: 1988. Listed an illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 31.
- Creator:Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1947
- Dimensions:Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palo Alto, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 82641stDibs: LU1567213139612
Pablo Picasso
One of the most prolific and revolutionary artists the world has ever seen, Pablo Picasso had a tremendous impact on the development of 20th-century modern art. Although he is best known for his association with the Cubist movement, which he founded with Georges Braque, Picasso’s influence extends to Surrealism, neoclassicism and Expressionism.
“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction,” the Spanish artist proclaimed. In Picasso's Cubist paintings, he emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas, breaking with conventions regarding perspective, foreshortening and proportion. Picasso was inspired by Iberian and African tribal art. One of his most famous pre-Cubist works is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a painting considered immoral and shocking at the time for its depiction of nude women whose faces resemble Iberian tribal masks.
Picasso made many portraits in this style, most often of the women in his life, their expressively colored faces composed of geometric shards of surface planes. In Woman in a Hat (Olga), 1935, he painted his first wife as an assemblage of abstract forms, leaving the viewer to decipher the subject through the contrasting colors and shapes. Picasso was a tireless artist, creating more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculptures. Tracing his life’s work reveals the progression of modern art, on which he had an unparalleled influence.
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