Georges Cueille Ceramic Vase With Flower Decor

Very beautiful collector's item by French ceramist Georges CUEILLE In perfect condition, signed at the base, Circa 1950 Flared base reinforcing the intensity of the piece Free and insured shipping in mainland France Born in Bassignac le Haut in Corrèze in 1927, Georges Cueille continues artistic studies at the National School of Decorative Arts in Limoges. In 1948, in Paris, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Bernard Cathelin workshop. While continuing to train, Georges took up painting, the theme of his paintings are Paris and the banks of the Seine. His apprenticeship in Decorative Arts was interrupted following the birth of his daughter Isabelle. He then has to work at Pomone on the cheap. With Maia, his painter wife, they go to visit the famous potters' village, Vallauris, at the invitation of Lyouba Naumovitch, painter and friend of Maïa's diplomat father, and also a Yugoslav. In 1954, following the fatal car accident of his parents (Odette Gourju and Lyouba Naumovitch), Jacques Innocenti (1926-1958), who had a workshop on Rue Hoche in Vallauris, took over the Poterie du Grand Chêne from his parents . He receives the Cueille family and introduces Georges to ceramic techniques. In 1956, Georges Cueille bought this workshop. Its close neighbors are Roger Collet, Pablo Picasso, Jean Derval, the Thiry couple and the painter André Cottavoz. Jacques Innocenti opened another workshop in Vallauris, which operated until 1958, the date of his sudden death. In 1960, the Cueille couple left Vallauris to settle in the Lot in the village of Saint-Jean-Lespinasse, close to Georges' family and the commune of Saint-Céré where Jean Lurçat (1892-1966) lived, who was ceramics in Saint Vincens. They remained there until October 1966. The Cueille and Lurçat couples were great friends. Georges is mandated by the United Nations to direct training and promotion programs for traditional art and ceramics, by developing the activity of ceramic centers, cooperatives or craft schools in various developing countries. development in Africa, Central America and Madagascar. In 1990, he returned to France after having spent around thirty years abroad. And he returned to his village of Saint-Jean-Lespinasse in the Lot to devote himself exclusively to painting. In 2009, a major exhibition at the Espace Orlando in Saint-Jean-Lespinasse presented the lives of the two artists Georges Cueille and Peter Orlando (1921-2009) (who with his wife Denise lived in Saint-Céré in the 1980s) . Georges and Peter met in the 1950s and 1960s, when they exhibited at the Salon des Ateliers d'Art in Paris.