Some Previously Unpublished Preparatory Sketches for Picasso’s Ceramics
By Harald Theil
Summary
- >> Picasso's ceramics between experimentation and improvisation
- >> Madoura, models and creations
- >> The Preliminary Sketches
- >> The Previously Unpublished Sketches from July 29, 1947 and their Transposition into Ceramics
- >> after the Bull, The Fauness
- >> From Plastic Vases to Ceramic Sculptures
- >> The Woman Vase
- >> Owls and wader
- >> The Drawings of November 1, 1947
- >> Preliminary Sketches from the 1950s
During his vacation with Françoise Gilot on the Côte d’Azur, in late July, 1946, Picasso visited the Madoura pottery studio in Vallauris, run by Suzanne and Georges Ramié. In late July 1947, Picasso returned to the Madoura studio and began an intense creative process with the Ramié couple’s team.