1955 Madoura Oval Plate by Picasso | Boise Hour 1 Preview

it's been in our family since about 1970 we bought it in Rhode Island didn't even realize it was a Picasso until about five years ago I have to admit that then it hung over the stove in the kitchen and all of our kids love the smiley face and no one's perfect so it didn't bother me that there was a chip here five years ago we went into a gallery and saw not an oval but a circular plate with pretty much the same facial features but not the circles around here and I said oh we have a plate pretty similar to that I said it's over the stove and the guy sort of gasped and said over your stove and I said yeah I have a plate collection he said you know what you have and I said no not really he opened a bore and he's just sort of like this the older one and I said yeah he said you know what it's worth and I said maybe 50 maybe $100 I don't think we paid any more than that he said my dear it's increased I think you have maybe a thousand dollars and the guy said do me a favor take it off the wall above the stove so it had layers I hates a breeze well I can only imagine the amount of grease that must have been on it over the kitchen it's just one of those things you bought it because you liked it yeah you've enjoyed it because of the decoration the actual name for this particular dish is faced in the novel Picasso did a lot of these special editions for the Medora studio in the South of France he actually did 633 different objects that were taken and they made special editions for some are jugs some are figures and summer dishes of different shapes and all now you did mention that there was a little bit of enamel loss there and we do see that pretty regularly on some of these pieces that have high relief yes but otherwise it's in quite remarkable condition what's really important to know for this is that in this particular issue and by the way this was done in 1955 this tells us that they made a hundred of them okay and this is number 23 of a hundred although this is 23 of a hundred there's no guarantee that they actually got around to making the full 100 in the series okay here we have the Medora name right and here which is also important is that this is from an original print by Picasso now Picasso had a relationship with the Maduro studio for about 24 years so you can imagine the amount of product that came from this this is a really really nice example and I have to tell you something about the Picasso market in the last four or five years its skyrocketed it's just taken off tremendously so you're snickering in advance this is good so what do you think it's worth today I'm in the club you haven't a clue would you be surprised that an auction value in today's market probably on the conservative side would be in the range of 10,000 to 15,000 dollars I love you too yes it's really a wonderful example there's really no explanation of trends change in the antique business and what's changed in this over the last few years is that Picasso is just skyrocketed

Channel: Antiques Roadshow PBS

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Rating: 4.8321052 out of 5

Keywords: premiere, season premiere, Antiques Roadshow (TV Program), Public Broadcasting Service (Organization), picasso, madoura, appraisal, vintage, antique

Id: WFfHS7b4WJ0

Length: 3min 40sec (220 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 30 2013