PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Vase aztèque aux quatre visages (A.R. 401)
stamped, marked and numbered ‘Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / Madoura / 17/50’ (underneath)

white earthenware ceramic vessel, partially engraved, with coloured engobe and glaze
Height: 21 in. (53.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1957 and executed in a numbered edition of 50

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.
-

Conditions of Sale
FAQs
This lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd

Brought to you by

Lot Essay

‘So ready was our tourist to be won over by such an allure, that shortly afterwards he abandoned his carefree summer holiday and, accepting the mischievous whims of fortune, became the most absorbed and attentive workman imaginable. Carried away by his vital need to discover all, he suddenly succumbed, and with infinite delight, to the temptation -provoked, whether consciously or not, by himself -to penetrate the mysteries of earth and fire. With fitting reverence he approached this magical material, so sensitive to a mere stroke of the thumb yet so implacable in its reactions to the least variations of humidity, so stubborn in the hands of the uncomprehending yet so docile when treated with respect, a material so fragile while it is still in the shaping, totally dazzled from its recent metamorphosis for all that, in order to become from then on incombustible and imperishable, still to be purified by the terrifying ordeal of fire.’
Georges Ramié, Ceramics of Picasso, Barcelona, 1985, p. 7.