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Modern and Contemporary Art
Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish, active France, 1881–1973
Goat’s head in profile
1950
White earthenware clay, decoration in oxidized paraffin and glaze bath. Brown, green.
26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
other (object not completely round): 26.7 cm(10 1/2 in.)
other (object not completely round): 26.7 cm(10 1/2 in.)
Katharine Ordway Collection
1980.13.57
Geography:
Made in France
Culture:
Spanish
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Bibliography:
Alain Ramié, Picasso: Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works, 1947–1971 (Vallauris, France: Galerie Madoura, 1988), no. 110.
Georges Bloch, Catalogue of the Printed Ceramics, 1949–71 (Berne, Switzerland: Éditions Kornfeld & Klipstein, 1972), no. 16.
Georges Ramié, Picasso’s Ceramics (London: Secker & Warburg, 1975), no. 397.
Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 106, no. 69.
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