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Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish, active France, 1881–1973
Large Bird, Black Face
1951
White earthenware clay with decoration in engobes, knife engraved
54.5 × 43 cm (21 7/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Katharine Ordway Collection
1980.12.46
Geography:
Made in France
Culture:
Spanish
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Bibliography:
Susan Greenberg Fisher et al., Picasso and the Allure of Language, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009), 240.
Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 108, 111, no. 74.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.