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A piece of earthenware clay with glaze, black patinated ground, by Pablo Picasso. The work is entitled "Jacqueline's Profile" and is a portrait of one of Picasso's most well-known loves, Jacqueline. It is from an edition of 500 and was produced in 1956.

Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blanco, he began to draw at an early age. In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there at the La Lonja Academy of Fine Arts. His visit to Horta de Ebro from 1898 to 1899 and his association with the group at the café Els Quatre Gats were crucial to his early artistic development. In 1900, Picasso’s first exhibition took place in Barcelona and that Fall he went to Paris for the first of several stays during the early years of the century. Picasso settled in Paris in April 1904, and soon his circle of friends included Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein and two dealers, Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill.

By 1936, the Spanish Civil War had profoundly affected Picasso, the expression of which culminated in his painting Guernica (1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid). Picasso’s association with the Communist Party began in 1944. From the late 1940s, he lived in the South of France. Among the enormous number of Picasso exhibitions that were held during his lifetime, those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1939 and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1955 were most significant. In 1961, the artist married Jacqueline Roque and they moved to Mougins. There Picasso continued his prolific work in painting, drawing, prints, ceramics, and sculpture until his death April 8, 1973.