Collection of Pablo Picasso’s plates, vases and other ceramics go on sale for as little as £5,000
- Pablo Picasso fans will be able to buy some of his ceramics during a London sale
- An exhibition of 24 pieces will go on show where they can be purchased
- The cheapest item on the list is the Bird With A Worm ashtray costing £5,500
- The most expensive piece on sale later this month is the £70,000 Woman’s Face
His paintings adorn gallery walls worldwide and can sell for tens of millions of pounds.
But now fans of Pablo Picasso can buy one of the Spanish artist’s ceramics for as little as £5,500.
An exhibition in central London this month will see 24 pieces, including plates and vases, put on display for purchase.
A collection of ceramics by Pablo Picasso will be shown in London later this month where they will be sold. The items include, from left, Face No 111, £18,000; Vase with Two High Handles, £48,500; Goat’s Head, £28,000; and Prow Figure, £18,500
The cheapest item for sale is the Bird with a Worm ashtray which costs £5,500
The most expensive item on display is this Woman’s Face, which will cost £70,000
Bird with Worm, an ashtray inscribed with ‘Edition Picasso’, is the cheapest item at £5,500. Woman’s Face, a rectangular ceramic dish, will cost £70,000.
The early 1950s works are part of a 600-piece collection created during a 25-year collaboration with the Madoura Pottery workshop in Vallauris, south-eastern France, where Picasso met his second wife Jacqueline Roque.
Items featuring female muses and faces and owl-inspired jugs range from £17,500 to £50,000.
Other exhibits at the Huxley-Parlour Gallery in Mayfair include the Figure de Proue, a white ceramic vessel resembling a figurehead found on a ship’s bow.
Picasso’s 1921 painting Nature Morte, depicting a newspaper and a glass of absinthe, is separately being raffled for charity on March 30. Tickets are available online for £87. Its current owner, billionaire art dealer David Nahmad, said he believes Picasso would have backed his artwork being raffled.
‘Picasso was very generous,’ he said. ‘He wanted his art to be collected by all kinds of people, not only by the super-rich.’
Spanish Artist Pablo Picasso produced the works as part of a 600-piece collection in collaboration with the Madoura Pottery workship in Vallauris, south-eastern France
Also part of the collection is Grey Face, from 1953 which will go on sale for £30,000