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Collector Square Honors Pablo Picasso With Special Curated Sale

To mark the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, Collector Square is paying tribute to him with a sale bringing together ceramics and prints.

a painting by pablo picasso sold at the collector square
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We tend to forget it, but ceramics were an important part of Pablo Picasso's creative process. Indeed, in 1946, the artist met Georges and Suzanne Ramié, the owners of the Madoura pottery workshop in Vallauris. He then designed more than 3,500 creations, ceramics offering him the possibility of crossing the boundaries between “decorative arts” and “major arts”, but also of making his work more accessible. He even diverts it, by modeling it to create new plastic forms such as pitchers whose handles are, for example, shaped to form facial features.

The ceramic service offered is characterized by the artist's familiar motif, a face approaching a smile, inviting contemplation, while a rectangular dish bears witness to the recurrence of bullfighting in Picasso's culture. We say this to say, that Picasso's legacy is unsurpassed within the art realm, and on the 50th anniversary of his death, Europe's leading online retailer of secondhand luxury, Collector's Square, honors his impact by holding a special auction.

The sale brings together more than thirty works by the artist, including his cherished ceramics from over the years and select prints.

A print - a technique that Picasso experimented with the most - takes the form of an etching presenting the Catalan artist's jerky gesture on a charcoal black background. Profiles drawn in negative contemplate the painter at work in the privacy of his studio.

The pieces from this sale are visible at 38 Boulevard Raspail in Paris, located in the new space dedicated to Art and Collectibles at Collector Square, managed by Pearl Metalia. You can also shop the special Picasso sale on the Collector Square website.

Pablo Picasso. (1881-1973). Bullfight on black background - 1953 (A.R. #198 - R #714). Rectangular dish. White earthenware, slip decoration, engraved with a knife under glaze Blue, green, red, white, black background. Edition of 500 copies. ‘Editions Picasso/Madoura Plein Feu’ stamps. €18,500
Pablo Picasso. (1881-1973). Bullfight on black background - 1953 (A.R. #198 - R #714). Rectangular dish. White earthenware, slip decoration, engraved with a knife under glaze Blue, green, red, white, black background. Edition of 500 copies. ‘Editions Picasso/Madoura Plein Feu’ stamps.
Pablo Picasso. (1881 - 1973). Painter kneeling with spectators - 1966. Etching and aquatint on paper. Signed in pencil lower right and numbered ‘23/50’ lower left Publisher: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Printer: Crommelynck. €9,800
Pablo Picasso. (1881 - 1973). Painter kneeling with spectators - 1966. Etching and aquatint on paper. Signed in pencil lower right and numbered ‘23/50’ lower left Publisher: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Printer: Crommelynck.

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