Picasso: Ceramics

Picasso: Ceramics

Edited by Michael Juul Holm, Helle Crenzien, Kirsten Degel. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner. Text by Marilyn McCully, Harald Theil, Salvador Haro González, Lynda Morris.

Picasso's ceramics express the restless, fluid ease of his late years.

In 1946, Pablo Picasso visited an exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris, an area in southeastern France known for its many potteries. He would move to the region soon after, establishing a steady relationship with the Madoura ceramics workshop in 1948.

It was a watershed moment for Picasso, who throughout his long life was always on the lookout for new artistic challenges in all conceivable materials. Picasso's experiments with various ceramic materials, oxides and glazes would produce a huge body of work: some 4,000 ceramic objects bearing the motifs of animals, fauns and women evoked through Picasso's whimsical, elegant handling of...

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