Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

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PABLO PICASSO

Visage

Silver pendant, circa 1950. 33 mm; 1

inches (diameter).With the Madoura Empreinte

Originale Picasso stamp, verso.

Picasso created several similar

terre de faïence

medallions at Madoura around 1950 (see

Ramié 92, 631 and 632).

In addition to the prolific outburst of editioned ceramics, which he began to create in the

south of France during the middle of his career (he produced more than 600 editioned

ceramic works from 1947 to 1971), Picasso made a series of small jewelry pendants, likely

beginning around 1950 with several unique silver and gold pieces cast in southern France

with the assistance of his dentist, Dr. Chatagnier, as gifts for his then mistress, Françoise Gilot.

[5,000/8,000]

370 PABLO PICASSO (after)

Bacchanale

Aquatint, circa 1960. 475x560 mm; 18

x22

inches, full margins. Signed and numbered

117/250 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Crommelynck, Paris, with the blind stamp

lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression of this large print.

[8,000/12,000]

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