¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) TILE 'TÊTE D'HOMME... Lot 20

¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) TILE 'TÊTE D'HOMME BARBU', 1965 in white earthenware, decorated with engobes and metal oxides Signed, dated '24.5.65' and dedicated 'Pour Jean Ramié' with a face on the back Unique copy Earthenware, painted and partially glazed; signed, dated '24.5.65' and dedicated 'Pour Jean Ramié' on the underside; this work is unique 25,5 X 25,5 CM - 10 X 10 IN. A certificate from Mr. Claude Picasso, dated 10 novembre 2020, will be given to the purchaser. "If Picasso continues sporadically to create some unique ceramics entre 1959 et 1961, including several tiles, it is above all a period rich in editions, especially original prints including two suites of eight dishes on the theme of bullfighting made on 1er juillet 1959. It is also the end of an era as he leaves 'La Californie' to settle in 'Notre-Dame-de-Vie', in Mougins. The proximity of Vallauris, on the other hand, encouraged him to return more often to Madoura. In 1962-1963, he will have an intense production, first making, from May to juillet 1962, several portraits and balzacian scenes on chamotte clay plates, with a relief border forming the frame. Then, in July, he works on fragments of hollow white clay bricks that he finds in the dumps of nearby potteries and which he transforms, for the most part, into the head of a bearded man or woman1." In 1965, the theme is still in favour with Picasso who delivers here a bearded man's head, with striking pictorial effects, which we like to think could be a portrait of Jean Ramié. 1 Paul Bourassa, "Encounters with ceramics", in. Picasso et la céramique, exhibition catalogue, Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec, 6 mai-29 août 2004, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic in Toronto, 28 septembre 2004-23 janvier 2005, and Musée Picasso d'Antibes, 12 février-29 mai 2005, Paris : Hazan, 2004, p. 77.