Alexander Kalifano Picasso-Style Cubist Carved Ceramic Floor Vase 28" View Watchlist >
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Lot # E423
System ID # 28333853
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Alexander Kalifano Picasso-Style Cubist Carved Ceramic Floor Vase 28"
Monumental hand-carved and hand-painted ceramic floor vase by Alexander Kalifano, executed in the Cubist idiom with stylized female figures rendered in profile and three-quarter view across the body. The decoration draws directly on Picasso's portraiture — fractured planes, bold black outlines, and intersecting geometric fields filled with terracotta, ochre, deep green, coral, and crackle-glazed ivory animate the wide ovoid body from every angle. The elongated neck and flared rim are finished in a soft pewter-tone metallic ground overlaid with an incised harlequin diamond lattice studded with polychrome dots. At this scale, the piece commands a room the way a canvas does — narrative surface in every direction, the figures never quite resolving into stillness.
The original foam shipping container is included with the lot, offering immediate protection for transport or storage.
CONDITION
Good overall condition with strong visual presence. Several touched-up chips are present along with light scuffing, noticeable only under critical inspection. Surface crackle within the ivory glaze fields is intentional to the design.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- 28" H × 11" Diameter
- Weight: 13 lbs
- Material: Hand-carved and hand-painted ceramic
- Maker's mark: Alexander Kalifano (embossed on original foam shipping container)
- Includes original foam shipping container
- Campbell's Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale
