Lot n° 203
Estimation :
80000 - 120000
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 80 000EUR
Georges JOUVE (1910-1964) - Lot 203
Georges JOUVE (1910-1964)
Exceptional Lamp
Black glazed ceramic proof
signed below the alpha base and "Jouve".
Height (without shade) : 39 cm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Philippe JOUSSE and Norbert PIERLOT, "Georges Jouve", Jousse Entreprise éditions, Paris, 2005, model reproduced on page 197
NOTICE
Georges Jouve trained at the École Boulle before passing through the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He began his career working on theater sets when the Second World War broke out. Taken prisoner, he managed to escape and took refuge in Dieulefit, where he discovered working with clay and ceramics.
After the war, free, black forms became the hallmark of his work. He was one of the first ceramists to abandon the straight, geometric lines of Art Deco in favor of organic forms.
In his studio on rue de la Tombe-Issoire in Paris, he creates lustrous black ceramics. They are inspired by the ancient technique developed by the Etruscans for their bucchero objects: the clay is blackened in the mass by a firing process deprived of oxygen.
As Georges Jouve once said, "Black is a color in itself, which sums up and consumes all the others".
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