Canard pique-fleurs

Details

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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