One hundred and fifty lots in a catalog entitled "Important Ceramics by Pablo Picasso from a Private Collection including Modern and Contemporary Prints", accompanied by some modern art prints always from the same private collection.
Working on ceramics was a way for Pablo Picasso to explore creative boundaries and challenge himself in an innovative way. In 1946 he began a collaboration with the Madoura ceramic laboratory in Vallauris, a small village in Provence near Cannes in France, and the following year with the owners of the atelier, Suzanne and George Ramié, he began a real production of ceramics that also closely interested Matisse and the "Fauves" group. Picasso like Matisse began by painting and decorating plates, vases and mugs and giving them a meaning that was anything but artisanal with a few significant signs typical of the Master.
It was for him a great opportunity to better understand his versatility as a complete artist, able to merge his creativity from painting to sculpture, through drawing and engraving. Over the following years, the artist created several thousand unique pieces, he himself was aware that that material medium, clay, was something similar to him. His ceramics are the expression of his own spontaneity and ingenuity.
This selection of over 100 ceramics includes: plates, vases, jugs, bowls and tiles depicting a range of classical and mythic forms, and portraits of animals and humans.
Top Lots:
PABLO PICASSO – SERVICE VISAGE NOIR (AR 35-47) – Estimate: 35,235-46,980 EUR
PABLO PICASSO – VASE GROS OISEAU VERT (AR 453) – Estimate: 29,362-41,107 EUR
PABLO PICASSO – PLAT POISSON (SEE AR 166-171) – Estimate: 29,362-41,107 EUR
PABLO PICASSO – POISSONS (AR 113) – Estimate: 17,617-23,490 EUR
PABLO PICASSO – VASE DEUX ANSES HAUTES (AR 141) – Estimate: 14,094-21,141 EUR
PABLO PICASSO – TETE DE FEMME COURONNEE DE FLEURS (AR 236) – Estimate: 11,745-17,617 EUR
Among the prints in the catalogue, we find works by: Fernand Léger (after), Joan Miró, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Henry Matisse, Tom Wesselmann, etc.
Top Lots:
ANDY WARHOL – FLOWERS (F. & S. II.64-73) – Estimate: 258,390-352,350 EUR
ANDY WARHOL – MARILYN (FELDMAN & SCHELLMANN II.26) – Estimate: 46,980-70,470 EUR
JOAN MIRO – EQUINOXE (D. 428) – Estimate: 35,235-58,725 EUR
PABLO PICASSO – TETE DE FEMME (B. 1065; BAER 1285) – Estimate: 29,362-41,107 EUR
DAVD HOCKNEY – AMARYLLIS IN A VASE (TYLER 266) – Estimate: 29,362-41,107 EUR
