Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973). "Shining Dove". Rectangular dish in white earthenware with blue, white and black engobes decoration, bearing on the back the stamp "Madoura plein feu Edition Picasso" (tiny chip in the enamel). Printed at 400 copies. 1953. Height : 31,5 cm 31,5 cm Width : 38 cm Bibliography : Alain Ramié, Picasso, Catalogue de l'oeuvre céramique édité, 1947-1971, Madoura, 1988, referenced and illustrated under the number 218, p. 218. In 1946, during his holidays, Picasso discovered the pottery production of Vallauris. Through Michel Sima and Françoise Gilot, he met Suzanne and Georges Ramié who ran the Madoura workshop. A friendship was formed and an interest in this new medium emerged. The artistic field opened up by the fire arts stimulated the creativity of the master who produced more than 2000 unique pieces between 1947 and 1948. In total, 633 models were produced, between 25 and 500 copies. Their technical realization is supervised by the artist and the Ramié couple. Picasso revolutionized the treatment of forms and techniques: he replaced fragments of pignates, casettes, broken bricks, shaped unglazed ceramics and decorated them with elements in relief, and poured clay as one does bronze. Fauns, Arlesian women, owls, doves, bullfights are all themes that he reinvents, inspired by the Mediterranean sun.