Vase Signed Jacques Pouchin

Woman and bird vase signed Jacques Pouchain studied architecture in Paris. After a stint at the Grande Chaumière studio, he began a painting career in 1951, then moved to Dieulefit in the Drôme. In the Coursange earthenware factory in Poet-Laval, he learned ceramics, his talent as a painter enabled him to modernize decorations and renew shapes. In 1958, in Dieulefit, in the Masseboeuf district, he decided to open his own ceramic workshop which served as a place of residence and showroom. He realizes a utilitarian production of unique pieces with figurative motifs engraved in the earth and enamelled with brown and black tones. In parallel with utilitarian ceramics, he created a personal and stylized work, temporarily using manganese oxide placed on a white enamel in the early 1960s. His wife Rolande also participated in the decor. The joyful work evolves, the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic subjects give way to abstract decorations joining Modern Art, and has more and more architectural forms. The artist has paid homage to the theme of femininity and fertility in ceramics as her painting moves away from figuration towards the abstraction of landscapes in the tradition of Nicolas de Staël. Jacques Pouchain notably participated in 1965 in the International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics in Marseille, and three years later in the first biennial of Vallauris. His works are present in public collections: City of Paris, Museum of Modern Art, National Furniture Service, Museum of Valence, Museum of Marl (Germany), Museums of Marseille, Montreal (Canada), University of Boston (USA), ...