Landscape, round plate
(1953)
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 4.2 × 42.0 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- Vallauris, France
- Edition
- ed. 40/200
- Inscription
- impressed (diagonally) in base c.: MADOURA / (fire) / PLEIN / FEU
impressed (diagonally) in base c.: EMPREINTE / ORIGINALE DE / PICASSO
painted in black on base l.l.: 40/200 - Accession Number
- 2020.726
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by John and Cecily Adams, 2020
© Sucession Picasso/Copyright Agency - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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This large dish is decorated with a deeply evocative night-time image of the southern French landscape above the Côte d’Azur. It is an arresting image that is part of a series of just four dishes on which Picasso explored the subject of landscape. All are dated to December 1953.
