Visage à la grille. 1956.
Ceramics. White sherd, relief decor with engobe painting.
Numbered on the base and with the embossing stamps “Madoura Plein Feu” and “Empreinte originale de Picasso” and the incised number “ C 114”. One of 100 copies. Diameter: 42.5 cm (16.7 in).
[KT].
• Picasso attained a combination of painting and sculpture in his ceramics
• Picasso - artistic genius and innovator - adopted traditional pottery techniques and refined them using revolutionary new methods
• In a period of just 24 years, he created 3000 ceramic works, which once again demonstrate Picasso's unbridled creative power.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg (since ca. 1980).

LITERATURE: Alain Ramié, Picasso. Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1974, Vallauris 1988, no. 352 (illu., different copy).

In good condition. Surface slightly dusted and soiled,