Bull Fight Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, active France, 1881–1973)

1953, March 11

Modern and Contemporary Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

White earthenware clay, oxidized paraffin decoration, and white enamel bath

Dimensions

h.: 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm)
diam.: 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm)

Credit Line

Katharine Ordway Collection

Accession Number

1980.13.55

Geography

Made in France

Culture

Spanish

Period

20th century

Classification

Containers

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Bibliography
  • Susan Greenberg Fisher et al., Picasso and the Allure of Language, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009), 240
  • Alain Ramié, Picasso: Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works, 1947–1971 (Vallauris, France: Galerie Madoura, 1988), no. 182
  • Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 111, no. 72
  • Georges Ramié, Picasso's Ceramics (London: Secker & Warburg, 1975), no. 297
  • Georges Bloch, Catalogue of the Printed Ceramics, 1949–71 (Berne, Switzerland: Éditions Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1972), no. 41
Object copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In Copyright
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Marks

Stamped into ceramic on verso: "MADOURA PLEIN FEU" and "EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO"

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