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NEWS All the latest Pablo Picasso (18811973) Goat’s Head in Profile (Tête de Chèvre de Profil), 1952 WHAT’S GOING ON IN APRIL Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Woman (Femme), 1955 All the latest from the world of antiques and fine art ANTIQUE news CERAMICS BY PICASSO Ceramics by Pablo Picasso continue on show at a selling exhibition in London this month – the first time the artist’s ceramics have been exhibited as a solo show in the capital. Picasso’s ceramic works which all demonstrate the playful aesthetic of the Spanish artist, have generated significant interest in recent years. His subjects varied from Greek mythological figures to animals, faces and even scenes of the Spanish corrida. Picasso’s ceramics were the result of a 25-year collaboration with the Madoura Pottery workshop in Vallauris, where he met his muse and second wife Jacqueline Roque. From 1946 to his death in 1973, he produced more than 3,500 ceramic designs. When he created them – often in editions of up to 500 – Picasso intended the works to be both accessible and easily affordable. Today, while prices have soared, they are still within the budgets of many collectors. Picasso’s Ceramics is on at the Huxley-Parlour Gallery, 3-5 Swallow Street until April 30. 6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING Picasso’s marks Throughout his later career, Picasso experimented with a variety of ceramic techniques, including oxides and glazes, firing processes and engravings. He adopted two main styles: the replication of an object and the creation of unique designs, using dry clay moulds. Works of the latter kind are distinguished by the mark Empriente Originale de Picasso. Other marks include the stamp Madoura Plein Feu, which verifies the edition’s authenticity and provenance, and Edition Picasso, which was limited to editions authorised by the artist and created at the Madoura factory. Above Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Grey Face (Visage Gris), 1953
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1Queen Mary The V&A’s ground-breaking exhibition on the ‘60s fashion icon Mary Quant moves to Scotland this month. The V&A Dundee will host the retrospective on the British designer who captured the spirit of ‘60s London and started a fashion revolution. Quant’s shop Bazaar opened in 1955 (the year after WWII food rationing ended) with her colourful designs proving an antidote to the era’s austerity and drabness. Mary Quant is at the V&A Dundee from April 4 to September 6. Left Mary Quant (foreground) with models © PA Prints 2008 Right Barnett Freedman painting in Arras, 1940, © Barnett Freedman Estate Below far right Barnett Freedman’s alphabet of letters known as ‘Baynard Claudia’, 1935, Manchester Metropolitan University ©Barnett Freedman Estate Below right Barnett Freedman book jacket for Love by Walter de la Mare, 1943, © Barnett Freedman Estate 3to see in April Left Mary Quant and Alexander Plunket Greene, 1960, courtesy of Terence Pepper Collection © John Cowan Archive Below left Mary Quant with Vidal Sassoon, 1964 © Ronald Dumont/ Stringer/Getty Images Far left Dress with epaulettes and tie © V&A, London 2Barnett fare The first major exhibition of work by Barnett Freedman (1901-1958) continues in Chichester this month, celebrating one of the greats of modern British design who was also part of the celebrated set of the artist Eric Ravilious. Freedman rose to success after designing the cover for Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and became well known for his book jacket designs. His work on a 1938 version of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and a 1951 reprint of Anna Karenina were both considered as two of the finest examples of 20th-century book design. Freeman met fellow artists Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Edward Burra and Enid Marx at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1922. The group was famously referred to by tutor and artist Paul Nash, as ‘an outbreak of talent’. Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain continues at the Pallant House Gallery until June 14. 3Leach away The pioneering work of the Leach Pottery, founded in St Ives in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, is celebrated at an exhibition in the Cotswolds this month. Considered as the birthplace of British studio pottery, over the last century the Leach Pottery has been responsible for producing some of the best potters in the world. Leach spent 11 years in Japan and the Far East before returning to Britain in 1920 when he developed a new approach to ceramics based on form and technique. Pioneers: A Hundred Years of the Leach Pottery is on at the Chipping Campden Museum in Gloucestershire, from April 25 to July 12. Above Leach’s mark Far left The Bernard Leach Pottery Studio, St Ives Left A pot by Bernard Leach (1887-1979) ANTIQUE COLLECTING 7

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NEWS All the latest

Pablo Picasso (18811973) Goat’s Head in Profile (Tête de Chèvre de Profil), 1952

WHAT’S GOING ON IN APRIL

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Woman (Femme), 1955

All the latest from the world of antiques and fine art ANTIQUE news

CERAMICS BY PICASSO Ceramics by Pablo Picasso continue on show at a selling exhibition in London this month – the first time the artist’s ceramics have been exhibited as a solo show in the capital.

Picasso’s ceramic works which all demonstrate the playful aesthetic of the Spanish artist, have generated significant interest in recent years. His subjects varied from Greek mythological figures to animals, faces and even scenes of the Spanish corrida.

Picasso’s ceramics were the result of a 25-year collaboration with the Madoura Pottery workshop in Vallauris, where he met his muse and second wife Jacqueline Roque. From 1946 to his death in 1973, he produced more than 3,500 ceramic designs.

When he created them – often in editions of up to 500 – Picasso intended the works to be both accessible and easily affordable. Today, while prices have soared, they are still within the budgets of many collectors. Picasso’s Ceramics is on at the Huxley-Parlour Gallery, 3-5 Swallow Street until April 30.

6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING

Picasso’s marks Throughout his later career, Picasso experimented with a variety of ceramic techniques, including oxides and glazes, firing processes and engravings. He adopted two main styles: the replication of an object and the creation of unique designs, using dry clay moulds.

Works of the latter kind are distinguished by the mark Empriente Originale de Picasso. Other marks include the stamp Madoura Plein Feu, which verifies the edition’s authenticity and provenance, and Edition Picasso, which was limited to editions authorised by the artist and created at the Madoura factory.

Above Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Grey Face (Visage Gris), 1953

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