Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

In August 1946, while on holiday in Golfe Juan with Françoise Gilot, Picasso visited an exhibition of local crafts in Vallauris. Here he met Suzanne Ramié, who had created an atelier some years before in one of the town's old abandoned potteries. That afternoon, Picasso produced several pieces including a small faun's head and two bulls: the beginning of an adventure and a collaboration with the Ramié family that would last twenty-five years. The Ramiés welcomed him full time into their workshop the following year, and between 1947 and 1971 would go on together to produce at Vallauris a body of unique ceramics and 633 different plates, bowls, vases and pitchers, in limited editions ranging from 25 to 500. The present work, Visage dans étoile, is a unique plate which Picasso created on 31 October 1947. It is the original Visage dans étoile plate which was used as a prototype for the Visage dans étoile (A.R. 30) edition of 200.