PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Name: Bouteille gravée (A.R. 249)
Brand: PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Price: 16000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 20,000

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USD 12,000 - USD 18,000

Closed: 17 May 2016

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Bouteille gravée (A.R. 249)

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Price Realised USD 20,000

Closed: 17 May 2016

Price Realised USD 20,000

Closed: 17 May 2016

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Bouteille gravée (A.R. 249)
marked and numbered 'Edition Picasso/5/300/Madoura' (underneath)
white earthenware ceramic vase, partially engraved, with colored engobe and glaze
Height: 17 ¾ in. (45 cm.)
Conceived in 1954 and executed in a numbered edition of 300

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Lot Essay

This “engraved bottle” has a three-dimensional design, wrapping around the girth of the vessel. The refined palette has been extended to its fullest possibilities, employing both gloss and matte glazes to create differing depths of black, and with a rustic method of engraving to the surface to achieve the playful sense of line, thereby animating the smiling faces therein.
As David Sylvester wrote in his 1960 article, published on the occasion of Picasso’s great retrospective at the Tate Gallery: “The need to isolate often governs Picasso’s use of colour… the absence of variety in the colour helps to isolate qualities of form. Thus, black-and-white tends to be used in ambitious and complex compositions like , , , and the first .”