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☙ Céramique de Picasso
1974 - Georges Ramié
Published in 1974 by Éditions Cercle d'Art in Paris, Céramique de Picasso is the fundamental reference work on Pablo Picasso's ceramic output. Its author, Georges Ramié, was no outside observer: as director of the Madoura workshop in Vallauris alongside his wife Suzanne, he was... ☞ Read more
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☙ Céramique de Picasso
✑ Georges Ramié
CÉRAMIQUE DE PICASSO
Published in 1974 by Éditions Cercle d'Art in Paris, Céramique de Picasso is the fundamental reference work on Pablo Picasso's ceramic output. Its author, Georges Ramié, was no outside observer: as director of the Madoura workshop in Vallauris alongside his wife Suzanne, he was Picasso's privileged artistic partner for over twenty-five years. It was in this very workshop that Picasso first discovered ceramics in 1946 and went on to produce the bulk of his work in this medium until his death in 1973. This volume serves as both an exhaustive monograph and a reference catalogue illustrated with 750 reproductions — 340 in color and 410 in black and white — most of them taken by photographer Eduard Quinn, a longtime companion of Picasso. As a direct witness and central figure in this artistic venture, Georges Ramié delivers not only an unparalleled illustrated inventory but also a firsthand account of the genesis, techniques, and spirit of a ceramic body of work unique in the history of twentieth-century art.
Why add it to your collection?
- The Definitive Reference on Picasso's Ceramics, Written by the Vallauris Gallery Director
- 750 Black-and-White and Color Illustrations, Including Unpublished Photographs by Eduard Quinn
- The Original 1974 First Edition, the Only Reference Publication Issued During the Artist's Lifetime
- A Luxurious Large Quarto Format, Cloth-Bound Under an Illustrated Dust Jacket
- An Indispensable Tool for Authenticating and Appraising Any Picasso Ceramic Piece
Description
☞ Continue readingThe volume is organized in two complementary parts: an introductory text by Ramié, dense with personal recollections, followed by an iconographic corpus of exceptional scope. The text traces the story of the encounter between Picasso and ceramics at the Vallauris Potters' Exhibition in August 1946, the Ramiés' astonishment at the painter's immediate inventiveness, and the daily collaboration that followed in the Madoura workshop for nearly three decades.
Ramié describes with precision the techniques employed by Picasso: working on unfired or biscuit-fired pieces, slips, glazes, metallic oxides, and above all the total freedom with which Picasso transcended the constraints inherent to ceramics to turn it into a field of plastic experimentation. Plates, vases, pitchers, statuettes — every form became a pretext for an unprecedented pictorial or sculptural intervention.
Eduard Quinn's Photographs: A Living Memory
Eduard Quinn (1920–1997), an Irish photographer based in France, followed Picasso from 1951 to 1971, amassing a photographic archive of incomparable documentary value. The images reproduced in this book show Picasso at work in the Madoura workshop, hands in the clay, as well as finished pieces in all the richness of their colors and textures. These photographs are not mere illustrations: they constitute an irreplaceable record of the artist's creative process.
A Format and Production Worthy of the Subject
The edition is printed in a large quarto format (27.5 x...
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- Year
- ❧ 1974
- Century
- ❧ XX
- Author
- Georges Ramié
- Publisher
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- Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris
- Ref #
- MXP-563
- Dimensions
- 265 mm • 275 mm • 35 mm
- Weight
- 2450 gram
- Condition
- *** Good
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