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Preview image of work. painted and glazed ceramic plate,  Untitled (plate painted with four heads--portrait of Dora Marr) 12996

2003.11.64

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Untitled (plate painted with four heads--portrait of Dora Marr)

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Artist

Pablo Picasso (Málaga, Spain, 10/25/1881 - 4/8/1973, Mougins, France)

Title

Untitled (plate painted with four heads--portrait of Dora Marr)

Creation Date

ca. 1950-1955

Century

mid-20th century

Dimensions

10 in. (25.4 cm)

Object Type

ceramic

Creation Place

Europe

Medium and Support

painted and glazed ceramic plate

Credit Line

Bequest of William H. Alexander

Copyright

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Accession Number

2003.11.64

Pablo Picasso created ceramic works between 1937 and 1971, including 633 different editions. This plate’s decoration of interlacing heads in profile is characteristic of the rustic charm of many of Picasso’s ceramic objects, which, like his prints, helped make the art of one of the most famous mid-century artists more affordable for aspiring collectors. To many of his contemporaries, Picasso epitomized human creativity. The use of abstracted, crystalline forms, which Picasso had pioneered as an inventor of Cubism in the early years of the century, was at this time a distant memory. In the late 1940s, Picasso used editions in ceramics and in print to cater to middle-class art lovers who embraced the playful, colorful humanism in their desire to leave behind the oppressive memories of World War II.