Plate (Still Life with Spoon)
Artist
Pablo Picasso
(Spanish, 1881-1973)
Manufacturer
Madoura
(French)
CultureSpanish
Date1952
MediumEarthenware
DimensionsOverall: 13 x 13 in. (33 x 33 cm)
InscribedStamped on reverse: "Madoura/Plein/Feu & Empreinte/Original de/Picasso". Also painted in underglaze black: "Made in France".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.1066
Not on view
DescriptionPlate with relief abstract decoration in middle and on the border.Label TextPablo Picasso Spanish, 1881–1973 Manufactured by Madoura (Vallauris, France) Earthenware Plate (Flute Player), 1951 Plate (Still Life with Spoon), 1952 Platter (Goat’s Head in Profile), 1952 Plate (Goat’s Head in Profile), 1950 Gifts of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.1069, 71.1066, 71.1062, and 71.1070, respectively Pablo Picasso admired the work of the Madoura Pottery Factory while summering in Vallauris, a town in the south of France. With the help of owner Suzanne Ramie, he began in 1947 to explore ceramics as a new artistic medium, returning to Madoura’s studio regularly for the next 25 years. Through these collaborations, Picasso ultimately created more than 600 designs for plates, bowls, vases, and jugs, all hand-painted and sold in limited editions of varying size. Picasso’s favorite themes—bullfights, animals, still lifes, and Cubist faces—take on new and colorful energy in these works. Catalogue raisonnéAlain Ramié, _Picasso: Catalogue de L'oeuvre Céramique Édité, 1947-1971_ (Paris: Madoura, 1988) pattern no. 163 (or variant).