Large vase with dancers (Alain Ramié 114)

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PABLO PICASSO
Large vase with dancers (Alain Ramié 114)
red ceramic vase, partially painted in white engobe, 1950, apart from the edition of 25, incised with the artist's signature and with the 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura' pottery stamps on the inside of the neck, a few small losses to the engobe, minor soiling, otherwise in very good condition
Height: 26½ in. (672 mm.)

来源

The Estate of Arthur Rubinstein

拍品专文

The internationally celebrated American composer Arthur Rubinstein was a great admirer and personal friend of Pablo Picasso, who made the present vase as a special gift outside of the regular edition made at Vallauris in 1950. Rubinstein describes this moment in his autobiography, "I fell in love with a tall vase; he [Picasso] had decorated it with beautiful nudes in the noble classical style...When I offered to buy it, I was told that it was limited to twenty examples and they were all sold... what a surprise when I received this beautiful vase duly signed by him a few weeks later". (Arthur Rubinstein, My Many Years, 1980, Alfred A. Knopf, Vol. II; p. 568)