Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Grand vase aux femmes nues

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Grand vase aux femmes nues
inscribed, dated and numbered 'VALLAURIS MAI 50 17' and stamped 'EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' and 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' (on the inside)
painted and engraved terracotta vase
Height: 26 1/8 in. (66.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1950 and executed in a numbered edition of 25

Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired directly from the Madoura pottery in Vallauris in the 1950s, and thence by descent to the present owner.

G. Bloch, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé céramique, 1949-1971, vol. III, Bern, 1972, no. 20, p. 28 (another example illustrated).
G. Ramié, Picasso's Ceramics, Barcelona, 1975, no. 689, p. 291 (another example illustrated p. 277).
A. Ramié, Picasso, Catalogue de l'œuvre céramique édité, 1947-1971, Madoura, 1988, no. 115, p. 65 (another example illustrated in situ, pp. 13 & 16; another example illustrated pp. 64-65).

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