Best of Picasso: Ceramics

Edward Quinn lived and worked in the ‘50s and ‘60s as a photographer on the Côte d’Azur, the French Riviera. In 1951 he met and photographed Pablo Picasso for the first time. They became friends and Quinn photographed Picasso for the rest of the artist's life.

Here you will find highlights of photos of Picasso and ceramics. For other photos of Picasso and ceramics please select the keyword Ceramics in our extended search.

  • Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot at the Madoura pottery. Vallauris 23.3.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso using a potter's wheel to examine a finished ceramic jug at the Madoura pottery Vallauris. 23.3.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at work at the Madoura pottery. Vallauris 23.3.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso works on "Le picador" at the Madoura pottery. Vallauris 23.3.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at Studio Le Fournas, Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • The storerooms at Madoura pottery where Pablo Picasso keeps the originals. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at storerooms at Madoura pottery where he keeps the originals. Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso with some of the ceramic figures he made in clay, before they are put in the kiln. With him is Suzanne Ramié of the Madoura pottery. Suzanne is wearing a pendant by Pablo Picasso. Outside Madoura pottery, Vallauris 1953 - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso would sometimes squeeze a vase before the clay had hardened, molding it into a representational shape. "To give it life," he once said, "I have to wring its neck." Delighted that he could make the clay respond to any fantasy that passed through his mind, he shaped mythological figures such as fauns and satyrs, as well as vases representing graceful women, bulls, goats, fish, and above all, owls and doves. Here Pablo Picasso is working on small bird sculpture, Luciano Emmer film. Madoura pottery, Vallauris 14./15.10.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in front of a board with his ceramics. Le Fournas, Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso holding a terracotta tile (tomette). La Californie, Cannes 1956. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • La Californie, Cannes 1958. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso did a series of small folding figures, later done in plaster and ceramics. Notre-Dame-de-vie, Mougins 1974. (Photographed after Pablo Picasso’s death.) - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Madoura pottery with Pablo Picasso ceramics editions, Vallauris, date unknown, about 1978. - Photo by Edward Quinn