"PICASSO EDITION" Ceramic Plate Blue & Green With Black Bulls

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Picasso Edition Ceramic Plate Blue & Green with Black Bulls and Tree on front side. On the reverse it is stamped "Picasso Edition" and painted / stamped the same.

These plates are very collectable.

Created c.1952 and in catalogue of ceramic works from Galerie Madoura: Vallauris.

PLEASE NOTE: PLATE HAS A CHIP ON THE TOP.

ROCK HUDSON HAD CANDY IN IT ON THE COFFEE TABLE AND WAS PASSING IT, BUMPED IT AND GAVE IT A SMALL CHIP.  HE COMMENTED "POOR PICASSO" WHEN IT HAPPENED AND WE ALL LAUGHED.

HE WAS A BIG FAN OF PICASSO.

Pablo Picasso is recognized as one of art's great geniuses. Few artists in history have matched his stature and impact. The son of an art teacher, he gave evidence of his talents early in his life. He was born in Malaga, lived for some years in Barcelona, and in 1901 moved to Paris where an exhibition of his work was held by Ambroise Vollard, an art dealer. Vollard's appreciation of Picasso's talents and his business acumen were key elements in Picasso's rise to dizzying heights. Picasso first visited the Madoura pottery in Vallauris in the South of France in 1946. He returned every year thereafter, making numerous vases, plates, pitchers and other forms, hundreds of which were turned into edition pieces. Edition Picasso ceramics were made in multiples from 25 to 500. As they began to be collected, prices rose. Today even the smallest Picasso edition ceramics command a premium and rare pieces can cost over $100,000. due to demand by museums and important collectors.

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