Pablo Picasso - Service Visage Noir
Pablo Picasso
Service Visage Noir
1948
One ceramic dish and six ceramic plates. Each white clay with coloured engobe painting as well as with incised and relief decor. Glazed Diameter 42.7 cm (dish) and 23.5 cm (plates) Each with stamp "MADOURA PLEIN FEU" a well as inscribed 'DR Madoura d'après Picasso' in black brush on the underside. The six plates additionally inscribed "A", "B", "C", G", "I", "J". Each one of 100 copies. - Overall in fine condition.
In the late 1940s Pablo Picasso moved to Vallauris, in the French Riviera, where he discovered his passion for ceramics and soon became one of the most productive ceramicists of the 20th century. His fascination with the works of Suzanne and Georges Ramié led to a long and fruitful collaboration, which would go on for 25 years.
The plates of the “Service Visage Noir”, from 1948, were among Picasso's first ceramic editions. They were produced in a relatively small edition of just 100 pieces, and it is extremely rare for them to reach the market in the form of multiple-dish services with seven or thirteen parts. The set here, which consists of six plates and one large platter, spent many years in private hands. As in the case of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan a few years earlier, it was once presented to its previous owners as a generous wedding gift.
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Ramié 35 (dish) and Ramié 36, 37, 38, 42, 44, 45 (plates)
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Pablo Picasso
Service Visage Noir
1948
One ceramic dish and six ceramic plates. Each white clay with coloured engobe painting as well as with incised and relief decor. Glazed Diameter 42.7 cm (dish) and 23.5 cm (plates) Each with stamp "MADOURA PLEIN FEU" a well as inscribed 'DR Madoura d'après Picasso' in black brush on the underside. The six plates additionally inscribed "A", "B", "C", G", "I", "J". Each one of 100 copies. - Overall in fine condition.
In the late 1940s Pablo Picasso moved to Vallauris, in the French Riviera, where he discovered his passion for ceramics and soon became one of the most productive ceramicists of the 20th century. His fascination with the works of Suzanne and Georges Ramié led to a long and fruitful collaboration, which would go on for 25 years.
The plates of the “Service Visage Noir”, from 1948, were among Picasso's first ceramic editions. They were produced in a relatively small edition of just 100 pieces, and it is extremely rare for them to reach the market in the form of multiple-dish services with seven or thirteen parts. The set here, which consists of six plates and one large platter, spent many years in private hands. As in the case of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan a few years earlier, it was once presented to its previous owners as a generous wedding gift.
Catalogue Raisonné
Ramié 35 (dish) and Ramié 36, 37, 38, 42, 44, 45 (plates)
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