PABLO PICASSO Vase with Goats

• LOT

  1813

• Artist

  PABLO PICASSO ( 1881 - 1973 )

• Estimate

  1,600,000 - 3,600,000 76,190 - 171,429 78,049 - 175,610 340,426 - 765,957 10,256 - 23,077

  JPY RMB HKD TWD USD

• Result

  Members only

• Details

  ceramic and hand-painted　　1952
  dated "6.6.52"
  two stamps on the underside
  This piece is unique.
  Provenance: Lot.253, Est Ouest Auction, 2007
  Publication: "Picasso: Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works, 1947–1971" No.156, Alain Ramié, Paris, 1988 (another example from the same edition is illustrated)
  The Madoura-Period Ceramic, works of Pablo Picasso have maintained steady demand in the international auction market. Polyhedral vases featuring animal motifs are particularly sought after, with value influenced by size, condition, and the presence of signatures or stamps. In recent years, comparable works from this period have generally achieved prices in the range of USD 30,000 to 180,000, while rare models or examples in exceptional condition have realized significantly higher results. The present work was produced in the 1950s in Vallauris, southern France, during Picasso's collaboration with Madoura Pottery. Its faceted, polyhedral vessel form possesses sculptural volume and geometric clarity, allowing the object itself to function as a self-contained work of art.The boldly rendered goat motif, painted in black oxide on a white ceramic ground, reflects one of Picasso's recurring late themes, embodying Mediterranean pastoral lyricism and primal vitality. The concise yet powerful line exemplifies the fusion of painting and sculpture, characteristic of the Vallauris period, when Picasso elevated ceramics beyond craft into the realm of modern art.
  PABLO PICASSO, Spanish painter, based in France. Along with Georges Braque, he is known as the founder of Cubism. He produced oil paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics, and was the most prolific artist of his lifetime. He was brought up seeing many paintings from his childhood because his father was an art teacher. He moved to Barcelona in 1895, entered art school. In 1907, he created "Daughters of Avignon" which was the beginning of cubism, around 1911 changed his painting style and turned to "abstract painting"which was a more advanced version of "cubism", and was commissioned to create a mural in the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 1937, Paris. He was commissioned to create a mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition in 1937, and painted "Guernica." It depicted the horrors of the indiscriminate bombings during the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of the most powerful anti-war paintings in the history of art.
  H:19.8cm D:23.0cm
  (H:7 ⅞ in. D:9 ⅛ in.)　

• Organizer

  Jo's Auction

• Auction

  Jo’s Auction Spring Auction of Art Works 2026

• Catalog

  Contemporary Art/Modern&Post-War Art

• Date

  2026/04/25