Picassos ceramics express the restless fluid ease of his late yearsIn 1946 Pablo Picasso visited an exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris an area in southeastern France known for its many potteries. He would move to the region soon after establishing a steady relationship with the Madoura ceramics workshop in 1948.It was a watershed moment for Picasso who throughout his long life was always on the lookout for new artistic challenges in all conceivable materials. Picassos experiments with various ceramic materials oxides and glazes would produce a huge body of work some 4000 ceramic objects bearing the motifs of animals fauns and women evoked through Picassos whimsical elegant handling of shape and line.