Mint mark "Madoura Plein Feu" and "Empreinte Originale de Picasso", without copy number. 1974, Vallauris, France. Design: Pablo PICASSO (1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins), 1956, produced in an edition of 450 copies.

Faience, black matt glaze, white engobed. Approx. 25 x 25 cm.

Square plate with rounded corners. Relief decoration with two dancing, stylized figures, surrounded by dots and lines. Bonded break, partially slightly rubbed.

The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso was one of the most important painters, graphic artists and sculptors of the 20th century. He studied in Barcelona and Madrid and lived in France from 1904. In the small Provençal village of Vallauris, Picasso designed and shaped a wide variety of ceramics over a period of around 10 years in the "Madoura" workshop of the Ramié pottery couple, after whose originals a large number of replicas were created.

Literature : Alain Ramié, Picasso, Cataloque de l`oeuvre céramique édité 1941-1974, Madoura, fig. 380.

Provenance : From a private collection in Thuringia, purchased in the 1970s from the Madoura workshop in Vallauris.