Picasso Vallauris Ceramics

Picasso himself as well as chagall and miró created a wide range of models ushering in a new era for ceramics.

Picasso vallauris ceramics.

Today only a handful of craftspeople still uphold this tradition. All of picasso s ceramics were produced at the madoura pottery run by the ramie family in vallauris in the south of france. He became so enthralled with ceramics that he decided to move to vallauris to pursue his new. The pottery and gallery madoura edits and exhibits picasso s edited ceramic work.

The small coastal town was known for its pottery and picasso quickly became enamored with the ceramics being produced by the atelier madoura owned by suzanne and georges ramié. Whilst on holiday in golfe juan with françoise gilot in 1946 picasso visited the annual pottery exhibition. The arrival of picasso in the 1950s raised vallauris to the rank of ceramic capital of france as he brought in many artists wanting to learn about the fired arts. Many inhabitants still evoke his presence and that of his contemporaries françoise gilot and her children.

In 1946 while visiting the annual pottery exhibition in vallauris pablo picasso had the good fortune to meet suzanne and georges ramie. He took a particular interest in the madoura stand and asked to be introduced to the owners suzanne and georges ramié. In july 1946 picasso visited vallauris france for the first time in the company of françoise gilot mother of claude. After he left vallauris for cannes and then for mougins he continued his ceramic work and his collaboration with madoura until his death in 1973.

Pablo picasso was undoubtedly an extraordinary 20th century painter but i also feel that in the field of abstract impressionism his ceramics were also remarkable. In a room adjacent to the museum of ceramics the photographs by andré villers represent picasso either as a public personage attending public events and feasts or working alone in his studio as a man fully integrated with the community of vallauris which made him an honorary citizen in 1950. A freeman of the town picasso greatly contributed to the renaissance of the vallauris pottery industry in the 1950s this legendary golden age when everyone was a potter including famous ceramicists roger capron and charles voltz.