Picasso. Photography and Ceramics

On occasion of the celebration in Barcelona of the 47th Conference of the International Academy of Ceramics, dedicated to ceramics in architecture and public space, Barcelona's Museu Picasso presents a selection of photographs from its permanent collection that documents Picasso's activity as a ceramicist.

Picasso's interest in ceramics began when he moved to the south of France after World War Two. In 1946 he visited the Madoura pottery workshop in Vallauris, and its owners – Suzanne and Georges Ramié – invited him to collaborate with them and their craftsmen. From that time on, Picasso would produce ceramics more or less intensively until the mid-seventies.

The museum halls present snapshots by photographers Marcos Chamudes, David Douglas Duncan, Roberto Otero and André Villers, who portrayed Picasso creating ceramic pieces and whose perceptive gaze and personal approach captured a range of moments of the artist's life and work.