Faun's head, round/square plate
(1955)
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 2.5 × 25.3 × 25.6 cm
- Edition
- edition of 150
- Inscription
- impressed in base u.c.: MADOURA / (fire) / PLEIN / FEU / EMPREINTE / ORIGINALE DE / PICASSO
- Accession Number
- 2015.418
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation with the assistance of John and Cecily Adams, 2015
© Sucession Picasso/Copyright Agency
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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The faun was an ancient Roman god of the wild being half-human and half-goat, the top half being human, but with goat’s horns on the head. It had particular associations with forests and the god Pan, and the rugged, rustic country of the south of France appealed greatly to Picasso’s fascination with antiquity. As Picasso became more familiar with the ceramic medium, he began to ask for more specific shapes to suit his designs and the round/square plate is a form unique to Picasso’s work from the pottery.
- Physical description
- white earthenware clay
