Pablo Picasso
In 1946 Picasso visited a pottery exhibition in Vallauris, close to Golfe Juan, as he had recently become interested in ceramics, and wanted to investigate the medium further. The Madoura workshop was exhibiting at the show, and their work caught the artist's eye. He asked to be introduced to the owners, Suzanne and Georges Ramié, who were delighted to meet the great man. Picasso asked a few questions about method and technicality but, as the actual workshop was very close by, Mons. & Mme. Ramié invited Picasso to go with them to see for himself. An excited & curious Picasso enthusiastically accepted and, immediately upon arriving at the workshop, made three pieces which he left to dry and bake.
It was a year before Picasso returned to Vallauris to examine the ceramics, but he was very happy with the way things had turned out. Soon, Picasso had his own area within the Madoura workshop where he began to work and where over the next quarter-century he would produce 633 pieces. Aside from artistic diversity and his natural enthusiasm for a new medium, one of the driving forces behind his prolific work at Madoura was the desire to create ceramics as multiples, that Madoura should produce and sell inexpensively so that everyone could own a Picasso.
Suzanne Ramié shared her vast experience with Picasso, teaching him all she knew of ceramics. Picasso being Picasso, however, it was not very long before he took the medium in new directions, creating some of his most memorable and popular images.
Available works by Pablo Picasso
Available Artists
- Albers Anni
- Andre Carl
- Baldessari John
- Bell Larry
- Boyd John
- Brice Lisa
- Calder Alexander
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Dadamaino
- Dávila Jose
- de Tollenaere Saskia
- Downing Thomas
- Dyson Julian
- Francis Sam
- Freud Lucian
- Gadsby Eric
- Gander Ryan
- Gilliam Sam
- Guston Philip
- Haring Keith
- Held Al
- Hockney David
- Kapoor Anish
- Katz Alex
- Kelly Ellsworth
- Knifer Julije
- Kruger Barbara
- Kusama Yayoi
- Le Parc Julio
- Leciejewski Edgar
- Levine Chris
- LeWitt Sol
- Lichtenstein Roy
- Mack Heinz
- Maripol
- Martin Agnes
- Martin Jason
- Martin Kenneth
- Mavignier Almir da Silva
- Miller Harland
- Morellet François
- Motherwell Robert
- Nadelman Elie
- Nara Yoshitomo
- Nemours Aurélie
- O'Donoghue Hughie
- Pettibone Richard
- Prehistoric Objects
- Prince Richard
- Quinn Marc
- Riley Bridget
- Ruscha Ed
- Scott William
- Scully Sean
- Shrigley David
- Smith Anj
- Smith Richard
- Smith David
- Sonnier Keith
- Soto Jesús Rafael
- Soulages Pierre
- Taller Popular de Serigrafía
- The Connor Brothers
- Turk Gavin
- Vasarely Victor
- Warhol Andy
- Wesselmann Tom
- Wood Jonas
- Wool Christopher
- Yiadom-Boakye Lynette