Pablo Picasso (Spanish/1881-1973)
Yan Visage (A. R. 512)
Marked and numbered 'No. 94'
Red earthenware with black paint

Height: 9 3/4 inches
Width: 4 7/8 inches
Length (with handle): 6 1/2 inches

Terre de faience pitcher, 1963, numbered 94/300,
incised 'Edition Picasso', partially painted, with the
'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura' stamps. Picasso edition of 300.

Provenance: Estate of Dolores Alton
The first Prell Shampoo model, Dolores Alton (nee Famularo, 1927-2019) was born and raised in New Orleans. As an actress she would live in Chicago, performing at Second City, and was contracted as an ingenue for 20th Century Fox Studios. She studied in Vermont and NY, eventually moving to the Pioneer/Happy Valley in Western Massachusetts. Dolores spent considerable time in France and Italy, for work and culture. As a co-owner of Beaufield Homes (based in Louisiana), she was a conservationist engaged in sustainable housing. As a collector, her interests ranged from archeology to modernism to vernacular art. She would befriend the spiritualist, musician and visual artist Sister Gertrude Morgan of New Orleans' Gentilly and the Lower Ninth Ward, collecting a significant body of her work. Several Morgan paintings from Alton's collection were shown in the 2005 retrospective exhibition and illustrated in the book: Tools of Her Ministry of Sister Gertrude Morgan.