¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) FLAT 'COLOMBE', 1949 in... Lot 17

¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) FLAT 'COLOMBE', 1949 in earthenware, decoration incised and painted with engobes and metallic oxides under glaze Signed, dated '10.11.49' and dedicated 'Pour Monsieur Ramié' Dated '10.11.49' again and marked 'Madoura/Plein feu' on the back Unique copy Earthenware, painted, engraved and glazed; signed, dated '10.11.49' and dedicated 'Pour Monsieur Ramié'; dated again '10.11.49' and 'Madoura/Plein feu' stamp on the underside; this work is unique 38,5 X 31 CM - 15 1/8 X 12 1/4 IN. PROVENANCE Collection Georges and Suzanne Ramié, Vallauris. Then by descent. A certificate from Monsieur Claude Picasso, dated 10 novembre 2020, will be given to the purchaser. "After the Second World War, my father passionately explored the possibilities offered by ceramics, including the different painting techniques with slip, glaze and glaze. For more than twenty years, he modelled, designed, decorated, engraved and carved some three thousand five hundred terracotta objects. The originality and creativity of this body of work give him an important place in the history of ceramics art at XXe siècle. One hundred and sixty-three terracotta creations have also been cast in bronze, generally better known as sculptures than in their original ceramic form. Other sculptures were first executed in plaster before being made in bronze or céramique ; some of these were then reworked and decorated with slip and glaze, thus completing the range of possibilities offered by this medium. No major artist on XXe siècle has shown, I believe, as much interest as my father in this often neglected field of art. With the exception of the rare forays attempted by Matisse, Chagall and a few others, the only comparable adventure has been that of Miró, in collaboration with his friend and compatriot Josep Llorens Artigas. But Picasso's involvement, so personal, on the fringes of fashions and of his time, has only recently received its due recognition. ...] My father, finally, never saw himself as céramiste : he approached this medium as he did the others, exploring the resources offered by the materials and techniques of the pottery workshop, testing their intrinsic qualities and possibilities, to tirelessly invent his work. Claude Picasso, "Je ne cherche pas, je trouve", in Picasso, Peintre et sculpteur sur argile, Éditions de la Martinière, Paris : 1988, p. 12. "In the first period of his work at the Madoura de Vallauris workshop, starting at septembre 1947, Picasso used standard, press-moulded dishes and produced more than a thousand unique pieces in two years. The artist worked on the dishes before the clay was completely dry, often digging or incising their surface ; he also experimented with different oxides, engobes, enamels and glazes". Marilyn Mc Cully [under the direction of], Picasso, Painter and sculptor on clay, Éditions de la Martinière, Paris : 1988, p. 185.