Description:Featuring a stunning variant of movement and form, Pablo Picasso has transformed the art of the textured surface of this ceramic plate by depicting a series of three characters on a trampoline. Each is suspended in mid-air, each in varying positions, each figure complementing the other in an equally balanced and innovative composition. As if to be read from left to right, this series of characters could even be a study of one fluid movement broken down into a type of slideshow. Its simplistic execution coupled with minimalist strokes and lines make way for feminine and graceful renditions of the human form. Subtle undertones of teal and green offset the bold black surface enamel of the lines which are raised and textured against the glazed, white surface of the plate.
Created in 1956, this work is out of the total edition of 500 and stamped on the reverse 'Empreinte Originale De Picasso' and 'Madoura plein feu.' Made of white, earthenware clay with engraving accentuated with oxidized paraffin and a glaze bath.
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
It is fully documented and referenced in (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that I will enclose with the sale of the work) :
1. Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l'œuvre grave céramique, Tome III 1949 - 1971, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein: Berne, 1972. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 72 on pg. 64.
2. The On-line Picasso Project, Texas A&M University. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. OPP.56:087. http://picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/
3. Ramié, Alain. Picasso: Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947 - 1971, Galerie Madoura: Vallauris, 1988. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 375 on pg. 195.
About the Framing:
Conservation framed with museum-quality archival materials, this work is mounted on archival black linen in a modern and sleek black shadow box frame. The simple black framing in conjunction with the black linen, accentuates and enhances the brightness of this work. Completed with a window on the verso featuring the reverse of the plate and publisher's stamp.
