Peach In Trompe-l'oeil

This peach is typical of the art of Marcel Figuères.

Born in 1928 and deceased in 2017, he spanned the 20th century with the passion and talent of 19th-century ceramists.

Without respite, he sought to dominate the material, its firing and decoration to create virtuoso pieces. After starting his career as a ceramist with the Massier family in Vallauris, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, where he met his future wife Gilberte, who worked at the faience factory in St-Jean du Désert, with whom they set up their own workshop in 1952.

Among the various specialties he explored, Marcel Figuères excelled from the 1980s onwards in the art of naturalistic trompe-l'œil, inspired by the ancients such as Bernard Palissy, while at the same time researching new definition materials for ceramics, even cooperating with NASA, resulting in pieces of astonishing realism, including the fish that made him famous, but also a wide variety of vegetables and fruits.