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Seven distinctive ceramic plates and dishes painted by celebrated Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, created between 1947 and 1964, have been bought in Geneva, Switzerland, for a complete of 272,000 Swiss francs – nearly €290,000.
Yep, Picasso was additionally a tableware artist.
The never-before-seen hand-painted ceramics, that includes birds, fish and goats, have been designed within the Madoura Pottery Workshop in Vallauris (Alpes-Maritimes). They’d been saved privately for nearly 40 years.
Piguet of Geneva (Switzerland), which dealt with the sale, famous in a press launch that the estimated worth for the heaps was 145,000 Swiss francs (€154,000) – making the public sale a shocking success.
The sum fetched at public sale “displays the general public’s enthusiasm for the grasp’s works in all their kinds,” said Piguet.
“Picasso was already an internationally-renowned artist,” Adeline Bisch Balerna, head of work and sculptures at Piguet, informed AFP previous to the sale. “He had already opened up an enormous variety of avenues for all artists; the good, well-known works had been created, and he was in search of new technique of expression for his artwork.”
Within the ceramic medium, the document for a Picasso stands at £980,275 (€1.149m) for the prototype for the artist’s 1950 vase Grand vase aux femmes voilées at Christie’s London in 2013.
Further sources • AFP, Artnet
