Three Glazed Ceramic Side Tables By Mado Jolain And René Legrand, France, Circa 1960

Three side tables, by Mado Jolain and René Legrand, including a pair, with glazed ceramic tile topsin shades of green and black.
Bases in black lacquered iron.
Two larges tables ans a small one.
The smaller table can be stored under one of the two larger ones.

Large table, height: 14.8 in
Large table, lenght: 12.4 in
Large table, width: 12.4 in
Small table, height: 13.6 in
Small table, lenght: 10.2 in
Small table, width: 10.2 in

Mado Jolain, France
Mado Jolain joined the School of Decorative Arts in Paris and the drawing and sculpture workshops of La Grande Chaumière. There she met René Legrand who turned more towards painting. Sensitized by the craze for ceramics which began before the war, Mado Jolain carried out her first attempts as a potter in the kiln of a utilitarian ceramics workshop, rue d’Alesia. In 1946, Mado Jolain and René Legrand married and moved to Montrouge where René set up his painting studio. The ceramic workshop is not far away, in the 14th arrondissement. René Legrand shoots their first plays. Popular art, very popular in the decorative arts of the post-war period, was a great source of inspiration for them. They visit the Dijon Museum and the Museum of Popular Art and Traditions where they appreciate the shapes of utilitarian pottery. In 1948, creations from the Mado Jolain workshop were exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Ateliers d’Art Décoratifs and at L’objet 1948, a landmark exhibition after the war, organized at the Galerie Denise Breteau, rue Bonaparte ,Paris.
Source: www.madojolain.fr