Têtes
- Cat.
- A.R. 368
- Medium
- White earthenware pitcher, black engobe decoration, glazed
- Size
- H. 12 cm, W. 15.5 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 500
- Marks
- Underside: hand-painted 'Edition Picasso'; impressed 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' stamp
- Condition
- Good. Faces and branch motif crisp; handle and collar dots intact; no chips or hairlines visible across five views. Light base wear consistent with age.
- 1956Madoura, Vallauris
- —Acquired by the present owner from a private seller, September 2026.
- 2026Artemis Collection
Têtes (A.R. 368) is a Picasso ceramic pitcher, catalogued A.R. 368 in Alain Ramié's reference on the edited ceramics, conceived in 1956. It comes from the numbered edition of 500 produced at the Madoura pottery in Vallauris. It measures H. 12 cm, W. 15.5 cm.
Picasso's ceramics were made in collaboration with the artisans of the Madoura workshop, who translated his painted and modelled originals into limited editions under his supervision. Each authorised example was fired and finished at Madoura in Vallauris and carries the workshop's marks, bridging the worlds of fine art and the potter's craft that Picasso so admired.
In Têtes (A.R. 368) Picasso takes up the stylised head, reduced to a few essential marks. Like all of the Madoura editions, the piece translates a subject from his painting and drawing into three dimensions, where the ceramic surface and the thrown form become part of the composition. Picasso's ceramics remain among the most accessible points of entry into his late work, prized for uniting a major twentieth-century hand with the everyday language of the potter.