Pablo Picasso Landscape, 1953

Created in 1953, this white earthenware clay dish is decorated in engobe with knife engravings under partial brushed glaze. This piece is from the total edition of 100. It is annotated on the reverse in black ink 'Edition Picasso' and dated along the lower rim on the face of the plate. This work also features the inscribed stamps: 'EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' and 'D'APRES DE PICASSO' on the reverse.

This work remains one of Picasso's few ceramics in which he creates a nighttime landscape scene against a stark, black background. This enables its color and texture details to be enhanced even further, allowing it to sparkle and shine as if lit under a nighttime sky. Despite being a night scene, this piece remains one of his most colorful, with blue, green, yellow, and white brushed glaze that makes up a charming scene of a house and farmscape. Nestled under the quiet of the crescent moon, Picasso borders the entirety of the scene with bold, blue stars that decorate the rim of the dish.

Documented and Illustrated in:
1. Ramié, Alain. Picasso Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1971, Madoura, 1988. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 205 on pg. 111

About the Framing:
Museum grade conservation framed in a contemporary gold moulding with silk mats.