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Pablo Picasso

Pot à deux anses (décor visage d'homme barbu)

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Pot à deux anses (décor visage d'homme barbu)

dated 23.8.52. and with the Madoura ceramic stamp

bronze

height: 31.5 cm. 12⅜ in.

Conceived on 23 August 1952; this example cast by the Godard Foundry, Paris in June 1955 in an edition of 2.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Picasso.


Formerly in the collection of Marina Picasso.

Estate of the artist

Marina Picasso, France (acquired by descent from the above)

Jan Krugier Fine Art, New York (probably acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above on 14 July 1987 by the present owner

Werner Spies, Picasso Sculpture with a Complete Catalogue, London, 1971, no. 447, p. 289, another cast illustrated (titled Pot with Whiskered Man (Face on Reverse))

Werner Spies and Christine Piot, Picasso: The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, no. 447.II, p. 375, another cast illustrated