Cogida, round dish
(1959)
from the Service de scenes de corrida series 1959
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 3.7 × 41.0 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- Vallauris, France
- Edition
- ed. 30/50
- Inscription
- moulded in relief (reversed) u.r.: • (…illeg.) • 7 • 1
impressed in base c.: MADOURA / (fire) / PLEIN / FEU
impressed in base c.: EMPREINTE / ORIGINALE DE / PICASSO
painted in black on base c.r.: 30/50 - Accession Number
- 2021.145
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by John and Cecily Adams, 2021
© 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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Picasso engaged regularly with the subject of the corrida in his ceramics from 1953 to 1959 and this dish shows a particularly lively scene with a matador being thrown in the air while another tries to distract the bull. The dish is dated in reverse at the top right, 1.7.59, and represents one of the last occasions that Picasso explored this iconic subject.
