Picasso Ceramic Art Pottery - Plates Vases Pitchers Etc - ID Dates / Scarce Book

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CERAMICS OF PICASSO
by Georges Ramie Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A., Spain, 1985.
This edition is written in ENGLISH.
This early out-of-print book provides an in-depth pictorial survey of the ceramic art of Picasso.
Lavishly illustrated, this book has 223 color photographs with complete descriptions of Picasso art in ceramics.  Translated by Kenneth Lyons, this English edition covers in-depth the works of Picasso in ceramics.  "Picasso, the most universal of artists, has worked in the most widely-varying techniques.  Though his painting and his drawing - and by now even his sculpture - are as well known, there are some aspects, such as his ceramics, that demanded special attention.  Georges Ramie, the expert potter who was Picasso's collaborator, was undoubtedly the most proper person to undertake this work.  For it was necessary to have known all the different phases in Picasso's work in ceramics, to follow his evolution in this medium and to be able to view his ceramic output as a whole.  This ceramic work in itself is as it were a summary of Picasso's great capacity of creation, as also of his profound understanding of the history of art, which at times served as his inspiration, to transgress that history and, at all events, to carry it to what we might call its ultimate consequences."
Given its rich narrative, superb photography, and in-depth captions, this book is an invaluable reference for the connoisseur of artistic ceramics and an indispensable text for the student or admirer of Picasso.
8.6" x 12" hardback with dust cover in very good condition. (Please note that this oversize book did NOT fit the scanner, thus the partial image of the cover.) 128 pages.
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