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Georges Jouve
Lidded tobacco jar, model no. 1005
- Estimate
- £10,000 - 15,000
£20,000
Lot Details
Glazed stoneware.
circa 1947
19 x 28.5 x 21 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Number 3 from the production of 10. Underside incised with 1005 III / X and artist's mark.
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Georges Jouve
French | B. 1910 D. 1964Working out of his studio in Paris (and later in Aix-en-Provence), Georges Jouve produced sculptural ceramics for modernist interiors. Upon the invitation of Jacques Adnet, the director of the Compagnie des Arts Français (CAF), Jouve participated in various salons internationally and within France, including the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. He created rigorously simple yet soft and playful forms, including plump, contrapposto vessels, rotund pitchers and cylindrical vases. His tireless experimentation of glazes led to a palette of perfect matte blacks, bone whites and joyful pops of lime green, lemony yellow and, occasionally, selenium red. Jouve's ceramics echo the organic modernism of his CAF colleagues, such as Charlotte Perriand and Serge Mouille.
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