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Artist Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Place of OriginSpain
Date1950
Dimensions25 7/8 × 13 × 13 in. (65.7 × 33 × 33 cm)
MediumEarthenware, two-part mold; slip painted and incised
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1954.24
Not on View
Label TextPicasso worked with a potter at the Madoura pottery in Vallauris, France, who formed the body of this vase. Picasso then executed the incised and slip-painted (diluted clay) decoration of four nude female figures.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, InSight: Contemporary Sensory Works, November 5, 2014-January 4, 2015.

Toledo Museum of Art, Drawn from Classicism: Modern Artists’ Books, September 9-December 10, 2017.

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