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Pablo Picasso Limited Edition Jacqueline's Profile Ceramic Wall Plaque

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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.

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Signed Alexander Archipenko After Limited Edition Geometric Statuette Bronze Sculpture

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A modern after sculpture in the style of Alexander Archipenko. The original of this sculpture was created in 1914. This sculpture, which is entitled "Geometric Statuette," is cast with bronze and measures 27 inches in height.

An energetic teacher and pioneering modernist sculptor of abstract human forms, Alexander Archipenko created one of the first multi-media sculptures, composing it of wood, glass, and wire. He experimented continuously with the effects of negative and positive space. He began his career with a Cubist style and then turned to simplified, abstract shapes with hollowed out parts of the bodies, especially where one might expect curves. In 1921, he moved to Berlin where he opened another art school and in 1923 immigrated to the United States and founded an art school in New York City as well as other locations including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Woodstock.

He became an American citizen, living out the remainder of his life in New York, but he taught short courses in numerous schools around the country including the Universities of Kansas City, Delaware, Washington, and Oregon. Most of Archipenko's work in German museums was confiscated by the Nazis in their purge of "degenerate art." In 1947, he produced the first of his sculptures that are illuminated from within. He accompanied an exhibition of his work throughout Germany in 1955--56, and at this time began his book Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908--1958, published in 1960. Archipenko died on February 25, 1964, in New York.