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Pablo Picasso (Spain/France, 1881-1973), Toros plate (A.R. 161), white earthenware with engobes, enamel, and oxidized paraffin bull decoration. From the 1952 edition of 500. Signed and impressed to underside: "Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu". 7 3/4" diameter x 1 1/4"H (20 cm x 3 cm).
PROVENANCE: The collection of the late Norman and Betty Luboff, acquired in Vallauris in the 1950s. Norman Luboff (1917-1987) was an internationally known American composer, music arranger and conductor, best known for his work with the Norman Luboff Choir. He was also a passionate collector of Picasso ceramics. Norman and Betty divorced in the mid 1960s, and Norman eventually remarried Gunilla Luboff and moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His Picasso ceramics collection was exhibited at the Wills N. Hackney Library at the Atlantic Christian University in Chapel Hill between 1985 and 1987, when Luboff passed away. Copies of an undated Chapel Hill Newsletter article about Luboff, his collection and the exhibit (and picturing his Fish, Femme Lamp, and Corrida Fond Noir platter, also for sale in this auction) are available to the winning bidder of this lot. (Note: the article incorrectly states that Gunilla was Norman's wife when the ceramics were purchased; he was actually married to Betty at the time). The collection has descended in the Luboff family to the present consignor.
CONDITION: Overall excellent condition; some glaze irregularities to bull, in the making, and some glaze imperfections to reverse, in the making.
