Pablo Picasso, Personnage avec mains sur les hanches (Vase with two high handles), 1953
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| Artist: | Picasso, Pablo (1881 - 1973) |
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| Title: | Personnage avec mains sur les hanches (Vase with two high handles), 1953 |
| Reference: | Ramié 213 |
| Medium: | Original turned vase of white earthenware clay with engobes |
| Image Size: | DIMENSIONS: 15 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in (39.4 cm x 13.3 cm x 24.8 cm) |
| Signed: | Features the inscribed stamps: 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EDITION PICASSO' with the hand-written inscription 'Edition Picasso' in black ink on bottom. |
| Edition: | From the edition of 400. |
| Condition: | This piece is in excellent condition. |
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The decoration on this vase recalls the intricate surfaces of Picasso's late etchings. Using all-over pattern and negative space, the artist creates a woman out of what, in another's hands, would have remained a vase. |
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Personnage avec mains sur les hanches is a large ceramic vase that, under Picasso's skillful manipulation, becomes a sculpture of a woman. With a gaze as fixing as her pouting lips, this woman captivates. The heart-shaped face and vivacious curves, so expertly molded out of the handles, denote that she is full of life and energy. This technique of utilizing form and coloration with the exquisite hand applied decorations are what make the sculpture so stunning. The artist ornamented the surface of the ceramic with knife engraving, white engobe, and glazing. Engobe, a term used to describe clay in liquid form, can be applied to wet or dry clay for decorative effect, or to lighten the color of the base underneath. In this case, Picasso used all three techniques to full effect, creating a piece alive with pattern, from the leafy crown circling the woman's head to the starburst patterns. Conceived in 1953, this white, earthenware clay vase is decorated with engobe and knife engraving, and has been partially brushed with glaze. It comes from an edition of 400, and features the inscribed stamps, 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' 'EDITION PICASSO' stamps on the underside, as well as a hand-written inscription 'Edition Picasso' in black ink. RECENT AUCTION RESULTS: Catalogue Raisonné & COA: 1. Ramié, Alain. Picasso Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1971.
Paris: Galerie Madoura, 1988. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné
no. 213 (another example illustrated). | |
| Style: | 20th Century Modern Master, Lovers, French and Russian |
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Biography of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
"Yet Cubism and Modern art weren't either scientific or intellectual; they were visual and came from the eye and mind of one of the greatest geniuses in art history. Pablo Picasso, born in Spain, was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along. The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his early works, which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture.
"He was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered. He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain - all in the years 1899 to 1904.
"Before he struck upon Cubism, Picasso went through a prodigious number of styles - realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and is characterized by a predominantly blue palette and subjects focusing on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes. This was when he also produced his first sculptures. The most poignant work of the style is in Cleveland's Museum of Art, La Vie (1903), which was created in memory of a great childhood friend, the Spanish poet Casagemas, who had committed suicide. The painting started as a self-portrait, but Picasso's features became those of his lost friend. The composition is stilted, the space compressed, the gestures stiff, and the tones predominantly blue. Another outstanding Blue Period work, of 1903, is in the Metropolitan, The Blind Man's Meal. Yet another example, perhaps the most lyrical and mysterious ever, is in the Toledo Museum of Art, the haunting Woman with a Crow (1903).
"The Rose Period began around 1904 when Picasso's palette brightened, the paintings dominated by pinks and beiges, light blues, and roses. His subjects are saltimbanques (circus people), harlequins, and clowns, all of whom seem to be mute and strangely inactive. One of the premier works of this period is in Washington, D.C., the National Gallery's large and extremely beautiful Family of Saltimbanques dating to 1905, which portrays a group of circus workers who appear alienated and incapable of communicating with each other, set in a one-dimensional space.
"In 1905, Picasso went briefly to Holland, and on his return to Paris, his works took on a classical aura with large male and fernale figures seen frontally or in distinct profile, almost like early Greek art. One of the best of these of 1906 is in the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY, La Toilette. Several pieces in this new style were purchased by Gertrude (the art patron and writer) and her brother, Leo Stein.
Picasso enjoyed creating his art on many media. From paintings to etchings to ceramics, all of his works are a testament to his skills. There are even Picasso prints that are worth more than unique original works.
