Never-before-seen Picasso ceramics surpass expectations at auction in Geneva

Published on 20/06/2025 - 16:14 GMT+2

Seven unsocial ceramic plates and dishes painted by celebrated Spanish creator Pablo Picasso, created betwixt 1947 and 1964, person been sold in Geneva, Switzerland, for a full of 272,000 Swiss francs - almost €290,000.

Yep, Picasso was also a tableware artist.

The never-before-seen hand-painted ceramics, featuring birds, food and goats, were designed successful nan Madoura Pottery Workshop successful Vallauris (Alpes-Maritimes). They had been kept privately for almost 40 years.

Piguet of Geneva (Switzerland), which handled nan sale, noted successful a property merchandise that nan estimated value for nan tons was 145,000 Swiss francs (€154,000) - making nan auction a astonishing success.  

The sum fetched astatine auction “reflects nan public's enthusiasm for nan master's useful successful each their forms,” stated Piguet.

“Picasso was already an internationally-renowned artist,” Adeline Bisch Balerna, caput of paintings and sculptures astatine Piguet, told AFP anterior to nan sale. “He had already opened up a immense number of avenues for each artists; nan great, well-known useful had been created, and he was seeking caller intends of look for his art.” 

In nan ceramic medium, nan grounds for a Picasso stands astatine £980,275 (€1.149m) for nan prototype for nan artist’s 1950 vase Grand vase aux femmes voilées astatine Christie’s London successful 2013.

Additional sources • AFP, Artnet