¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) FLAT 'COLOMBE À LA... Lot 33

¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) FLAT 'COLOMBE À LA LUCARNE' (A.R. 78) earthenware, decorated with engobes and metal oxides Numbered '93/200' and inscribed 'Edition/Picasso/Madoura' Marks 'Madoura/Plein feu' and 'Edition Picasso' Glaze jumps on the edge earthenware platter, painted and partially glazed; numbered '93/200' and inscribed 'Édition/Picasso/Madoura'; 'Madoura/Plein feu' and 'Édition Picasso' stamps; losses of enamel to the rim 31,7 X 38,5 CM - 12 1/2 X 15 1/8 IN. "As early as 1948, Picasso expressed the wish to see his ceramics éditées : 'Picasso's dearest wish was that his pottery could be reproduced industrially as one draws water-forte : 'I would like to find in every market, whether in a village in Brittany or elsewhere, a woman going to the fountain to fetch water with one of my pots. But in our society, if I put a ceramic on sale at a fair, people will speculate on it. So, I'll give it away in museums all over the place. Picasso was quick to act on his aspirations. In the first place, it seems that the published pieces were made as early as the beginning of 1949. The first works - 'services' and 'a dish decorated with a dove' - were presented at the new gallery in the Madoura studio in July of that year." Paul Bourassa, "Introduction", in Picasso et la céramique, exhibition catalogue, Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec, 6 mai-29 août 2004, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic in Toronto, 28 septembre 2004-23 janvier 2005, and Musée Picasso d'Antibes, 28 septembre-29 mai 2005, Paris : Hazan, 2004, p. 16.