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Mid Century Modern Pottery Vase by Gilbert Portanier

$2,63219% Off$3,250

Southport, CT

Condition Notes: Small chip in bottom left corner - please see photo for detail. Small chip in bottom left corner - please see photo for detail. less

Description: Gorgeous lime green colored ceramic vase by famed ceramist, Gilbert Portanier.

In 1948, Gilbert Portanier, a painter, discovered clay as … more Gorgeous lime green colored ceramic vase by famed ceramist, Gilbert Portanier.

In 1948, Gilbert Portanier, a painter, discovered clay as a material to work with at Vallauris, the ceramics centre in the south of France. There he developed his unique style in the medium. What is so significant about his early work is his mastery of drawing on pottery. In the early years, Gilbert Portanier drew with the brush on his pieces mainly Arcadian genre scenes inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity. On the look-out for new colour combinations, colour textures and colour compositions, however, Gilbert Portanier gradually distanced himself from drawing and switched to free painting on ceramics. Every one of his pieces belongs in a museum, thus Picasso commenting on Portaniers painterly ceramics. And indeed Portanier, like no other, conjures colourful, surrealist abstract-figurative paintings on the ceramics he has designed.

In his pieces, the Mediterranean delight in representing and communicating comes into its own. The inexhaustible riches of Portaniers teeming imagination are unique in the international ceramics scene. less

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Southport, CT

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