Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Hibou

細節
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Hibou
hand-painted partially glazed ceramic tile
Height: 13 3/8 in. (34 cm.)
Executed in 1957; this work is unique
來源
The estate of the artist.
Jacqueline Picasso, Paris, by descent from the above.
Etienne Sassi, Inc., Paris.
Hammer Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 4 April 2005.
展覽
Vallauris, Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, Picasso, Céramiste à Vallauris: Pièces uniques, July-November 2004, no. 103 (illustrated p. 146).
New York, Hammer Galleries, Picasso: Ceramics at Vallauris, 1946-1973, April-May 2005.
注意事項
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品專文

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Françoise Gilot recalled that "While Pablo was still working at the Musée d'Antibes [in 1946, the photographer Michel] Sima had come to us one day with a little owl he had found in a corner of the museum. One of his claws had been injured. We bandaged it and it gradually healed. We bought a cage for him and when we returned to Paris we brought him back with us and put him in the kitchen with the canaries, the pigeons and the turtledoves. He smelled awful and ate nothing but mice. Every time the owl snorted at Picasso he would shout, 'Cochon, merde, and a few other obscenities, just to show the owl he was worse-mannered than he was but Picasso’s fingers, though small, were tough and the owl didn’t hurt him. Finally the owl would let him scratch his head and gradually came to perch on his finger instead of biting it, but even so, he still looked very unhappy”" (F. Gilot, Life with Picasso, New York, 1964, pp. 144-145).

The owl was a sacred animal to Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, and was the totemic bird of Antibes in antiquity. Picasso no doubt related to the stocky and clever predator.

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