¤ PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) PENDANTS 'WOMAN'S HEAD' in modelled red earthenware, engobe decoration Metal suspension ring Unsigned Unique example Earthenware, modelled and painted, metal suspension ring; unsigned; this work is unique 4,2 CM - 1 5/8 IN. A certificate from Monsieur Claude Picasso, dated November 10, 2020, will be given to the buyer. "Throughout his life, enjoying giving gifts, Picasso loved to give jewellery. Today, the recipients of these gifts, or their closest descendants, still have them in their possession. These are only a few of the pieces that have been shown in exhibitions and, despite the amount of knowledge we have about Picasso, his life and his work, there are few references to them. [In Vallauris, for example, he made a number of small clay objects: figurines, heads or hands. Some of these were made from small pieces of ceramic, debris picked up from the floor of the pottery workshop. [...] Although they could be worn, Picasso did not see them as jewellery. They were linked to his fascination with the Mediterranean and evoked a past going back to antiquity; he saw them as ex-voto, tiny household gods, seals, talismans, 'objects for [the] hand' to play with." Clare Finn, "Picasso and Jewelry," in Picasso, Peintre d'objets, Objets de peintre, cat. expo., Musée d'art moderne de Céret, June 12-September 19, 2004, La Piscine-Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix, October 9, 2004-January 9, 2005, Gallimard, Paris: 2004, pp. 79 and 84.