Picasso Excelling Even Himself

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Most of the ‘One-off’ ceramic works (approximately 4000) which Picasso decorated and sculpted were held in the artists’ studio where they remained out of sight.
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Several hundred of these works were copied and sold in limited-editions. These pieces are eagerly collected and well understood.
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It is generally acknowledged that the limited edition copies that were made fail to capture the shear quality and incomparable variety of Picasso's original artworks.
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The subject matter, the brilliant artistry and extraordinary compositional balance of the ceramic piece which this blog is about, support my conviction that it is not just a ‘One-off’ work from the hands of Pablo Picasso, but one with which even he excelled himself.