Picasso the ceramist and the Mediterranean.
Gallimard| N° d'inventaire | 17030 |
| Format | 24.7 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 207 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
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After the war, settled in the South of France, Picasso built a ceramic oeuvre that still stands out for its scope and fascinates with its inventiveness. In Vallauris, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea steeped in culture and tradition, the experience of ceramics, in collaboration with Suzanne and Georges Ramié in their Madoura studio, was undoubtedly an opportunity for Picasso to reconnect with a personal heritage and to assert his Mediterranean cultural identity. He inscribed in the soil of this immense territory his participation in a tradition that he invited into its forms and colors and that he assembled and reconstructed as his own creation of the world where his loved ones rub shoulders with fauns, where bacchanalia mingle with bullfights and where each element participates in an extraordinary magic of knowledge and invention. It is with more than 150 pieces, most of them unseen, selected with the greatest care, that we discover this beautiful adventure between Picasso and the extraordinary culture of the Mediterranean.
After the war, settled in the South of France, Picasso built a ceramic oeuvre that still stands out for its scope and fascinates with its inventiveness. In Vallauris, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea steeped in culture and tradition, the experience of ceramics, in collaboration with Suzanne and Georges Ramié in their Madoura studio, was undoubtedly an opportunity for Picasso to reconnect with a personal heritage and to assert his Mediterranean cultural identity. He inscribed in the soil of this immense territory his participation in a tradition that he invited into its forms and colors and that he assembled and reconstructed as his own creation of the world where his loved ones rub shoulders with fauns, where bacchanalia mingle with bullfights and where each element participates in an extraordinary magic of knowledge and invention. It is with more than 150 pieces, most of them unseen, selected with the greatest care, that we discover this beautiful adventure between Picasso and the extraordinary culture of the Mediterranean.