Pablo Picasso was undoubtedly an extraordinary 20th century painter but I also feel that in the field of Abstract Impressionism his ceramics were also remarkable. All of Picasso's ceramics were produced at the Madoura pottery run by the Ramie family in Vallauris in the south of France. Whilst on holiday in Golfe Juan with Françoise Gilot in 1946, Picasso visited the annual pottery exhibition of local crafts in Vallauris, where he met Suzanne Ramié, who invited him to visit her atelier, which she had restored from one of the town's old abandoned potteries. The same day Picasso produced several pieces of
