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Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) love affair with ceramics started in 1946, when he came across a pottery fair in the South of France. There, he met the proprietors of the Madoura Pottery workshop and started a collaborative relationship with the studio that lasted until his death.
Inspired by Spanish folk ceramics, Picasso embraced traditional motifs such as bullfights, roosters, suns, and faces. He appreciated the medium for combining both painting and sculpture, using the three-dimensional surfaces as a canvas for exploring his favorite motifs.
This pitcher emulates and depicts a horse and Picador, both in shape and imagery. The jug's shape is round on the sides with a tall spout on the front, it's body shaped like the horse it represents. On the front of the spout, like a figure-head on a ship, stands the Picador, leading his animal to the ring. A tree and blue petal-like shapes adorn the other side of the vessel, adding to the scene being depicted. Picasso enjoyed the Picador as an image, and depicted it throughout his oeuvre.
Picasso was known for being a prolific artist. Over a 24-year period, he is believed to have produced over 3000 unique ceramic pieces and 600 editions. Enthusiastic about the medium, he worked on plates, vases, bowls, sculptures, and pitchers.
His ceramics are imbued with a sense of joy and freedom. Having created them in his 60's and in the charming South of France at his summer home, it's no wonder Picasso was so playful with his clay creations. He ultimately met his second wife--Jacqueline Roque--at the Madoura workshop, further enhancing the uplifting motifs in this vein of his work.
Part of Picasso's drive to create pottery was that it was an accessible medium, able to be produced on a scale that his paintings could not. The ceramics were palatable to those in the general public who found his paintings to be either too expensive or too controversial. They were sold for around $100 in the 1950s and 1960s, and received little attention from important collectors. Today, however, his pottery is widely adored, with one-of-a-kind pieces showing soaring prices. In 2016, Le Hibou (Rouge et Blanc) (1953)—a unique earthenware sculpture of a patterned owl—set a record for Picasso's ceramics, fetching over $2.4 million at Christie’s.
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"Cavalier et Cheval"
France, 1952
White earthenware ceramic pitcher, partially engraved, with colored engobe and glaze
8"H 5.5"W 6"D
Numbered 188/300
Inscribed "EDITION PICASSO" and "Madoura", glazed and painted, with the Edition Picasso and Madoura stamps on bottom
Very good condition
Literature:
Ramié, Alain: Picasso, Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works 1947-1971, Lyon, 1988, cat. rais. no. 137, ill.
- Creator:Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1952
- Dimensions:Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
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- Movement & Style:
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- Condition:very good condition.
- Gallery Location:Toronto, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 05-251stDibs: LU215216298952
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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