Poteries de Picasso

Designed by the artist, this vintage poster was produced to accompany Poteries de Picasso, an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s pottery at the Maison de la Pensée Française, Paris, in 1948–49. It incorporates a charming line drawing of an owl’s head rendered as a simple spiral with eyes and beak—a motif not repeated in other posters by the artist—and presents the show’s title in lively hand-drawn white lettering against a solid auburn ground. The lithograph was printed by Mourlot, the Parisian studio famous for the nearly four hundred lithographs that Picasso produced there between 1945 and 1969, in a limited run of 750 copies.