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Pablo Picasso, 1957
Technical Details
Medium
Painted ceramic tile
Dimensions
20 × 20 cm (7.9 × 7.9 in)
Style
Ceramics
Decade
1950s
About This Work
Dove (Ceramic Tile) applies a simplified bird motif to a 20 × 20 cm ceramic surface. The compact tile format turns the dove into an emblem-like image: a few painted marks must carry the sense of flight, while glaze and fired clay make the drawing tactile and durable. Unlike a unique canvas, the tile also invites attention to ceramics as a medium in which image, object, and possible repetition can coexist.
Dated 1957, this painted ceramic tile is cataloged within Picasso's late Vallauris-period ceramic practice. The record identifies examples as distributed among various collections and includes a 2022 Sotheby's Paris sale; it therefore does not claim a single public holding collection. An exact institutional object page for this particular tile has not been verified, so the general museum route remains a context link and the mismatched reproduction has been removed pending a source-confirmed image.
Current Location
Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
$30,000–60,000 (est.)
* Estimates are based on comparable auction results and market analysis. Not a formal appraisal.
Last Known Sale
$45,000
2022
Sotheby's Paris
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