Pablo Picasso Danseurs et Joueur de Diaule (Dancers and Diaulos Player), 1956 is a beautiful piece that can be compared to several other white earthen ware pieces created by Picasso in 1956. Each depicts the carefree imagery of dancers, musicians, and fauns to which the artist returns time and again. Framed under a sloping mountain, two figures dance with arms raised above their heads, hands clasped in a spontaneous gesture. Leafy trees and flowers mark both ends of the composition. To the right the diaulos player lends his music while a reclining figure in the foreground listens; the bent knee mirrors the peak in the distance just as the musician's linear form echoes the thick tree trunk at right. The raised image occupies real space, its volume adding substance.

Created in 1956, this Madoura round/square dish of white earthenware clay is numbered from the edition of 100. This work is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' pottery stamps on the reverse.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Pablo Picasso Danseurs et Joueur de Diaule (Dancers and Diaulos Player), 1956 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. Ramié, Alain. Picasso Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works 1947-1971. Madoura: Galerie Madoura, 1988. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 341.
2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Pablo Picasso Danseurs et Joueur de Diaule (Dancers and Diaulos Player), 1956 is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.