Woman's face. 1953.
Ceramics. White sherd, color engobe painting, engraved with a knife, partly glazed.
Stand with the embossing stamps "Madoura plein feu" and "Edition Picasso" and with the hand-written number and the inscription "Edition Picasso Madoura". From an edition of 200 copies. 32 x 19 x 29 cm (12.5 x 7.4 x 11.4 in).
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• Large, particularly unusually shaped jug from Picasso's diverse ceramic oeuvre.
• He transferred the ancient technique of pottery into the 20th century through modern forms and figurative painting.
• His ceramics testify to Picasso's boundless inventiveness and his vast artistic repertoire time and again.

PROVENANCE: Atelier Madoura, Vallantis.
Private collection Saarland (acquired from the above).
Ever since family-owned.

LITERATURE: Alain Ramié, Picasso. Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1971, Vallauris 1988, no. 192 (illu. in colors).

In good condition. A small crack inside the spout from the making, not visible from the outside.