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Picasso Ceramics



As the scholarship on ceramics practice has increased, so has the recognition of Picasso as an important pioneer in the medium. A major traveling exhibition, Picasso and Ceramics (2004), argued that Picasso was one of the most important ceramists of the 20th century—an artist who worked firmly within the traditions of the medium, and yet pushed it forward with an innovative, conceptual approach. The result is a body of work that is every bit as visually distinctive as Picasso’s paintings and sculptures, but also consistently utilizes the unique shapes and properties of ceramics. “Ceramics is a logical extension of Picasso’s oeuvre because it integrates issues that he has always dealt with in his art,” says Dr. Karen Kleinfelder, Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach, and a well-respected Picasso scholar. “There is a play between the two-dimensional surface and the three-dimensional vessel that the pure medium of painting does not allow. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso famously painted a woman’s front side and backside confronting the viewer simultaneously. On a ceramic object, he might show different aspects of a scene that become apparent as you view it in the round.” Vase à la tête (Visage de profil)—which translates to Vase in the Shape of a Head (Face in Profile)—presents an excellent example of Picasso’s playful, multifaceted approach. This four-sided white vase was handmade by the artist himself in 1956, in an edition of 25. As the vase is turned, four different images look out from its rounded surface, forming four sides—a smiling sun, a human face, a woman’s front side, and a woman’s backside. The piece is charming and whimsical, at the same time that it shows off the vase’s splendid curves, and highlights its function as a vessel. Other wonderful vase pieces include Pichet à glaçons (Tête de femme) [Ice Pitcher (Head of a Woman] (1952), in which a woman’s head forms the vessel’s body, and a handle and two spouts become her headgear; and Vase à deux anses hautes [Vase with two high handles] (1953), which resembles a woman standing arms akimbo, with two handles forming her arms, her breasts and legs prominently painted on the vessel, and her head opening haughtily up on top. Lauded as an innovator of form, these works show Picasso’s unique talent for wresting inventive and graceful narratives out of surprising contexts. The round platter or bowl seems to be a surface on which Picasso particularly delighted in tweaking pictorial possibilities. Plongeurs Fond Blanc (Divers in White), a convex wall plaque in an edition of 500 dated 1956, is a remarkable piece that depicts a group of divers lounging by a pool or a lake. A diver in mid-arch atop a platform echoes the curvature of the top rim of the plaque, while a diver lounging on the ground accentuates its bottom edge. In Picador, a bowl in an edition of 500 dated 1953, a horseman lances a bull’s neck as a toreador awaits nearby. All three figures stand on a plain that lightly curves across the bottom of the bowl. On these objects and others like them, the formal possibilities of the piece are beautifully teased out, as a placid round surface is transformed into an arena filled with drama, action, and startling complexity. -Carol Cheh


Picasso Ceramics

Polychrome bird, 1947 (AR 33) ceramic dish 12 5/16 x 15 1/8 in. numbered 162/200 3486

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The Pike, 1950

(AR 103) ceramic dish 15 1/4 in. diameter numbered 144/150 3487

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Goat’s head in profile, 1952 (AR 154) ceramic dish 16 1/8 in. diameter numbered 26/100 3488

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Still life with spoon, 1952 (AR 165) ceramic dish 13 in. diameter numbered 108/200 3489

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Bright owl, 1955 (AR 285) ceramic dish 12 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. edition of 450 3490

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Vase with bunch, 1956 (AR 304) ceramic plate 9 7/8 in. diameter numbered 51/200 3491

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Bunch with apple, 1956 (AR 307) ceramic plate 9 7/8 in. diameter edition of 400 3492

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Centaur, 1956

(AR 339) ceramic dish 16 1/2 in. diameter numbered 53/100 3493

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Face in a square, 1956 (AR 354) ceramic dish 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 82/100 3494

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Face with Grid, 1956 (AR 352) ceramic plate 16 1/2 in. diameter numbered 62/100 3495

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Tormented Face, 1956 (AR 358) ceramic dish 16 1/2 in. diameter numbered 46/100 3496

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Tormented Face, 1956 (AR 360) ceramic dish 16 1/2 in. diameter numbered 95/100 3497

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Divers, 1956

(AR 377) ceramic plaque 7 1/4 in. diameter edition of 500 3498

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Tauromachy Scene, 1957 (AR 393) ceramic plate 9 in. diameter numbered 35/500 3499

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Bull, rim with leaves, 1957 (AR 394) ceramic plate 9 in. diameter numbered 27/500 3500

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Face with pursed nose, 1959 (AR 414) ceramic plate 9 3/4 in. diameter numbered 93/100 3501

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Dove subject, 1959 (AR 435) ceramic vase/pitcher 8 x 4 1/2 x 6 in. numbered 498/500 3502

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Big-eyed face, 1960 (AR 443) ceramic plate 9 3/4 in. diameter numbered 93/100 3503

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Face no. 72 , 1963 (AR 474) ceramic plate 9 7/8 in. diameter numbered 84/150 3504

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Bird no. 86, 1963 (AR 484) ceramic plate 9 7/8 in. diameter numbered 86/150 3505

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Dishevelled woman, 1963 (AR 510) ceramic plate 10 1/4 in. diameter numbered 84/100 3506

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Dishevelled woman, 1963 (AR 510) ceramic plate 10 1/4 in. diameter numbered 50/100 3507

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Man’s face, 1966 (AR 539) ceramic plaque 6.5 x 4 in. numbered 356/500 3508

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Man’s face, 1966 (AR 539) ceramic plaque 6.5 x 4 in. numbered 185/500 3509

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Figures and cavalier, 1968 (AR 540) ceramic plaque 4 x 6.5 in. numbered 43/500 3510

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Figures and cavalier, 1968 (AR 540) ceramic plaque 4 x 6.5 in. numbered 120/500 3511

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Little bearded face, 1968 (AR 558) ceramic plaque 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. numbered 33/200 3512

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Laughing mask, 1969 (AR 562) ceramic plaque 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. numbered 35/200 3513

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Y-stylized face, 1968 (AR 563) ceramic plaque 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. numbered 24/200 3514

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Face with circles, 1969 (AR 612) ceramic pitcher 11 3/8 x 7 in. numbered 202/500 3515

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Tete de Faun, 1956 (AR 346) ceramic brick 7 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. signed ‘Picasso’ 3516

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Still life with spoon, 1952 (AR 163) ceramic dish 13 in. diameter numbered 38/100 3517

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White ground fish, 1952 (AR 168) ceramic dish 13 1/5 x 16 1/2 in. numbered 61/200 3518

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Picador, 1953

(AR 211) ceramic cup 6 1/2 in. diameter numbered 404/500 3519

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Picador, 1953

(AR 211) ceramic cup 6 1/2 in. diameter numbered 123/500 3520

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Tormented Faun’s face, 1956 (AR 319) ceramic plate 16 1/2 in. diameter numbered 15/100 3521

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Face with spots, 1956 (AR 349) ceramic plate 16 7/16 in. diameter numbered 15/100 3522

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Heads, 1956

(AR 367) ceramic pitcher 5 1/8 in. edition of 500 3523

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Round-eyed face, 1960 (AR 452) ceramic plate 7 1/2 in. diameter numbered 62/100 3524

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Round-eyed face, 1960 (AR 452) ceramic plate 7 1/2 in. diameter numbered 82/100 3525

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Face No. 54, 1963 (AR 467) ceramic plate 9 3/4 in. diameter numbered 84/150 3526

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Face No. 197, 1963 (AR 494) ceramic plate 9 3/4 in. diameter numbered 285/500 3527

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Face with large nose, 1963 (AR 503) ceramic plate 10 3/4 in. diameter numbered 35/100 3528

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Women and toreador, 1968 (AR 541) ceramic plaque 6 1/2 x 4 in. numbered 115/500 3529

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Women and toreador, 1968 (AR 541) ceramic plaque 6 1/2 x 4 in. numbered 155/500 3530

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Little sun, 1968 (AR 544) ceramic plaque 4 x 6 1/2 in. numbered 87/100 3531

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Little sun, 1968 (AR 545) ceramic plaque 4 x 6 1/2 in. numbered 80/100 3532

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Little sun, 1968 (AR 546) ceramic plaque 4 x 6 1/2 in. numbered 94/100 3533

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Little sun, 1968

(AR 547) ceramic plaque 4 x 6 1/2 in. numbered 158/200 3534

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Light Neptune, 1968 (AR 578) ceramic plaque 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. numbered 9/100 3535

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Flute player, 1951 (AR 127) ceramic plate 9 7/8 in. diameter edition of 40 3536

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Hands with fish, 1953 (AR 214) ceramic bowl 12 1/2 in. diameter numbered 31/250 3538

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Face, 1955

(AR 290) ceramic bowl 4 in. diameter edition of 500 3539

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Dancers and diaulos player, 1955 (AR 341) ceramic plate 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. numbered 86/100 3540

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Big candy-striped vase, 1956 (AR 370) ceramic vase 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. numbered 17/25 3541

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Wood owl, 1969 (AR 602) ceramic vase 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. numbered 278/350 3542

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Wood owl, 1969 (AR 603) ceramic vase 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. numbered 180/250 3543

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Oval with horse, 1971 (AR 622) ceramic tile 6 x 6 in. numbered 228/500 3544

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Little square with face, 1971 (AR 633) ceramic tile 6 x 6 in. numbered 176/500 3545

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Reclining figure, 1950 (AR 633) ceramic chard 3 x 6 in. 3547

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Ram’s head, 1950

ceramic chard incised ‘Vallauris Juillet 1950’ 3548

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Chard, 1962 ceramic chard dated ‘15.5.62’ 3549

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Visage, 1965

(AR 524) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 29/100 3550

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Visage, 1965

(AR 525) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 64/100 3551

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Visage, 1965

(AR 526) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 13/100 3552

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Visage, 1965

(AR 527) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 10/100 3553

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Visage, 1965

(AR 528) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 44/100 3554

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Visage, 1965

(AR 529) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 46/100 3555

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Visage, 1965

(AR 530) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 16/100 3556

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Visage, 1965

(AR 531) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 30/100 3557

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Visage, 1965

(AR 532) ceramic plate 16 7/8 in. diameter numbered 3/100 3558

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Pichet a Glacons, 1952 (AR 142) ceramic pitcher 8 x 15 x 12 3/4 in. numbered 12/100 3483

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Picador, 1952 (AR 162) ceramic pitcher 5 1/4 in. edition of 500 3484

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Heads, 1956

(AR 367) ceramic pitcher 5 1/8 in. edition of 500 3485

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Picador, 1955 (AR 289) ceramic cup 5 in. diameter edition of 500 3663

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Colombe de la Paix, 1955 ceramic plate 9 x 7 in. 3664

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Face with herring-bone patterned mask , 1963 (AR 501) ceramic plate 10 1/4 in. diameter numbered 58/100 3665

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Cavalier and horse, 1969 (AR 594) ceramic plaque 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. numbered 59/100 3666

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Picador, 1952 (AR 162) ceramic pitcher 5 1/4 in. edition of 500 3667

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Owl Pitcher, 1969 (AR 604) ceramic pitcher 9 x 5 1/2 x 11 in. numbered 91/250 3668

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Faun’s Head, 1955 (AR 283) ceramic plate 10 x 10 in. edition of 150 3669

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Little square with sun, 1971 (AR 631) ceramic tile 6 x 6 in. numbered 184/500 3670

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Lozenge with face, 1971 (AR 627) ceramic tile 6 x 6 in. numbered 239/500 3671

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Toros, 1952

(AR 161) ceramic plate 7 7/8 in. diameter edition of 500 3672

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Jacqueline’s Profile, 1956 (AR 383) ceramic wall plaque 7 1/4 in. diameter edition of 500 3673

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Jacqueline’s Profile, 1956 (AR 385) ceramic wall plaque 7 1/4 in. diameter edition of 500 3673

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Vase with two high handles, 1953 (AR 213) ceramic wall plaque 10 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 15 3/8 in. edition of 400 3724

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