¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) CARREAU 'TÊTE D'HOMME BARBU', 1965 in white earthenware, decorated with engobes and metallic oxides Signed, dated '24.5.65' and dedicated 'Pour Jean Ramié' with a face on the back Unique copy Earthenware, painted and partially glazed; signed, dated '24.5.65' and dedicated 'Pour Jean Ramié' on the underside; this work is unique 25,5 X 25,5 CM - 10 X 10 IN. A certificate from Monsieur Claude Picasso, dated November 10, 2020, will be given to the buyer. "If Picasso continues in a sporadic way to create some unique ceramics between 1959 and 1961, notably several tiles, it is especially a period rich in editions, particularly original prints of which two suites of eight dishes on the theme of the bullfight made on July 1, 1959. It is also the end of an era since he leaves 'La Californie' to settle in 'Notre-Dame-de-Vie', in Mougins. The proximity of Vallauris incited him to return more frequently to Madoura. In 1962-1963, he will have an intense production, realizing at first, from May to July 1962, several portraits and Balzacian scenes on chamotte clay plates, with a relief border forming the frame. Then, in July, he worked on fragments of hollow white clay bricks that he found in the rubbish dumps of nearby potteries and which he transformed, for the most part, into the head of a bearded man or a woman1." In 1965, the theme was still in favour with Picasso who delivered here a head of a bearded man, with striking pictorial effects, which one likes to think could be a portrait of Jean Ramié. 1 Paul Bourassa, "Rencontres avec la céramique", in. Picasso et la céramique, cat. exhibition, Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec, 6 May-29 August 2004, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic, Toronto, 28 September 2004-23 January 2005, and Musée Picasso d'Antibes, 12 February-29 May 2005, Paris: Hazan, 2004, p. 77.