PICASSO, Pablo
A Complete Set of Twenty-Four Silver Plates
Conceived in ceramic by Picasso between 1956 and 1967 and executed in silver by François Hugo and Pierre Hugo in a numbered edition of 20
Each signed, numbered, stamped with the silversmith’s mark, the French assay mark for silver and the Francois Hugo series number on the reverse.
repoussé silver
I. Dormeur, 43 cm
II. Visage aux feuilles, 43 cm
III. Faune cavalier, 42.8 cm
IV. Visage aux mains, 42 cm
V. Visage tourmenté, 41 .5 cm
VI. Visage de faune, 26.5 cm.
VII. Joueur de flûte et cavalier, 37 cm
VIII. Un poisson, 42.5 cm
IX. Profi de Jacqueline, 42 cm
X. Tête de taureau, 43 cm
XI. Visage larvé, 41.5 cm
XII. Visage en forme d’horloge, 42.5 cm
XIII. Visage géométrique aux traits, 41.5 cm
XIV. Horloge á la langue, 42.5 cm
XV. Jacqueline au chevalet, 42.5 cm
XVI. Tête au masque, 31.5 cm
XVII. Visage au carton ondulé, 42.5 cmm
XXI. Vallauris, dated 1956, 41.5 cm
XXII. Joie de vivre, 43.5cm
XVIII. Centaure, 41.3 c m
XIX. Visage aux taches, 42 cm
XX. Tête en forme d’horloge, 43 cm
XXIII. Tête géométrique, 35.5 cm
XXIV. Visage dans un carré, 42 cm
Literature
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé céramique, 1949-1971, Bern, 1972, vol. III, pp. 59, 62, 69, 76-78, 80-84, 86-88, 90-91, 93-94, 96-97, 102, 104, 107-108, nos. 63, 68, 82, 90-92, 94-98, 100-102, 104-105, 107-108, 110-111, 116, 118, 121-122 (white ceramic versions illustrated)
Douglas Cooper, François Hugo & Pierre Hugo, Picasso: 19 plats en argent, Paris, 1977, n.p. (other examples illustrated in colour except nos. xvii – xix, xxiii, xxiv)
Alain Ramié, Picasso: Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works, 1947- 1971, Madoura, Vallauris, France, 1988, pp. 145, 158, 164-168, 170-174, 176, 177, 178-179, 181, 184, 186-187, nos. 283, 309, 321-323, 325-327, 329-330, 332, 334, 336, 338, 340, 343, 344, 346-347, 349, 353, 358, 361, 363 (white ceramic versions illustrated in colour)
Pierre Hugo & Claire Siaud, Bijoux d’artistes: Hommage à François Hugo, Aix-en-Provence, 2001, pp. 147-193 (
