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RENE BUTHAUD - STATUE OF A GODDESS René Buthaud - Born in Saintes (France) in 1886 - Dead in Bordeaux in 1986. Like talented ceramists such Chaplet, Auguste Delaherche Carriès Jean Emile Lenoble, Émile Jean Decœur or Jean Mayodon, Buthaud fut un des rénovateurs de l'art de la céramique ayant renoué, en marge de la production industrielle, avec la tradition artisanale de la céramique d'Extrême-Orient. was one of the renovators of Ceramic Art. Leaving industrial ceramic , they have returned to the great art of traditional handmade ceramics of the East Far. His work consists mainly of tin tiles: Cups and vases ovoid, often decorated with female figures, statues of bathers, sea goddesses, sirens, nereids, centaurs. This sculptor specialized in ceramic is present in various prestigious collections : Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris - France Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris - Paris - France Museum of Decorative Arts - Paris - France Museum of Decorative Arts in Bordeaux - Hotel de Lalande Bordeaux - France National Museum of Ceramics - Sèvres - France Earthenware Museum - Museum Pastré - Marseille - France Gallery Geo Rouard - Paris - France From 1928 to 1961, René Buthaud worked for Geo Rouard, and was exposed in his gallery , the "Gallerie d'art décoratif moderne." He was part of the "Groupe des artisans français contemporains " - group of contemporary French Artisans - created by this gallerist. The Museum of Decorative Arts in Bordeaux tribute to René Buthaud in one of its space and shows a fifty of his works. Among those shown are masterpieces of 1920-1930, as the magnificient vase "Africans hauling a crocodile" of the International Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1931. |
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