David Benrimon Fine Art is pleased to present Pablo Picasso: A Ceramic Perspective featuring over 60 earthenware objects as well as related editions and works on paper in collaboration with Joshua Hirth Fine Art. Picasso designed 633 different ceramic objects between 1947 and 1971. This exhibition spans twenty two years of the artist’s ceramic career, beginning with Service Poisson (AR:3) from 1947 and continuing to Chouette (AR:606) from 1969. During this period, Picasso also created a number of variants such as Scène de corrida avec figures (AR:104) and unique works like Visage Lunaire from 1963. Although Picasso began by creating utilitarian objects like plates and bowls, he later produced more complex objects such as pitchers and vases, all of which are represented in this survey. La Tarasque (AR:247), a zoomorphic vase from 1954, is illustrative of this progression using both the handle and body to form facial features and anatomical parts to depict the animal. Alongside his advancements in form, Picasso explored several different techniques of glazing, painting, and engraving of the clay surfaces. Eventually he settled on two main methods of production. The first required the painstaking replication of the original object, recreating its form and design as closely as possible by hand. For the second, Picasso created original images in dry clay molds which were then used to transfer the images onto fresh clay; this technique more closely resembles the process used to make many editions and multiples today. The latter works all carry the mark Empreinte originale de Picasso. This survey of Picasso ceramic works is accompanied by related prints, works on paper and original exhibition posters like Picasso Vallauris 1953 - Exposition and Picasso Exposition de Vallauris 1962.