PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Canard pique-fleurs

Price realised GBP 278,500
Estimate
GBP 120,000 – GBP 180,000
Closed: 23 Jun 2016
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Canard pique-fleurs

Price realised GBP 278,500
Closed: 23 Jun 2016
Price realised GBP 278,500
Closed: 23 Jun 2016
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Canard pique-fleurs
glazed and incised white earthenware pitcher
Height: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm.)
Length: 18 7/8 in. (48 cm.)
Executed in 1951; this work is unique
Provenance
Galerie de la Vieille Fontaine, Lausanne.
Reber collection, Zurich, by whom acquired from the above in 1953.
Private collection, Rheinland.
Literature
G. Ramié, Picasso's Ceramics, Barcelona, 1975, no. 692, p. 291 (the numbered edition illustrated p. 277).
A. Ramié, Picasso, Catalogue de l'oeuvre céramique édité 1947-1971, Madoura, 1988, no. 117, p. 68 (the numbered edition illustrated).

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