Visage

Name: PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Brand: Visage
Price: 55000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 68,750

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GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000

Closed: 22 Jun 2018

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Visage

Price Realised GBP 68,750

Closed: 22 Jun 2018

Price Realised GBP 68,750

Closed: 22 Jun 2018

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Visage

terracotta tile, partially engraved, with black engobe and coloured glaze
7⅞ x 15½ in. (19.9 x 39.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1957; this work is unique

The artist's estate.
Marina Picasso, France, by descent from the above; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 February 2016, lot 674.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Valencia, Fundación Bancaja, Picasso: A Dialogue with Ceramics, Ceramics from the Marina Picasso Collection, February - April 1998, no. 43 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Alicante, Fundación Bancaja & Tacoma, Museum of Fine Arts.
Künzelsau, Museum Würth, Picasso, sein Dialog mit der Keramik, Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, June – September 1999, no. 49 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum.

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Lot Essay

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

This beautiful terracotta tile is a mature and unique example of Picasso’s expression of freedom and happiness that he felt during the Post-War period.

was previously in the Collection of Marina Picasso, the daughter of Picasso’s son, Paulo, who was born of the painter’s first marriage to the Russian ballet dancer, Olga Khokhlova.
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