Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973), MADOURA workshop. "Owl woman". Vase in white earthenware glazed white and black with painted decoration of a face (two chips). Proof bearing the stamps "D'après Picasso" and "Madoura plein feu". Printed at 500 copies. 1951. Height : 30,5 cm 30.5 cm - Length : 21 cm - Depth : 15 cm Bibliography : Alain Ramié, Picasso, Catalogue of the ceramic work published, 1947-1971, Madoura, 1988, referenced and illustrated under the number 119, p.70. 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.