Large Ceramic Dish By Pierre Saint Paul

Large ceramic dish with abstract decoration by Pierre Saint Paul. Very good state. Pierre Sicre Saint-Paul, born July 17, 1926 and died September 15, 2018, was a French painter, ceramist and tapestry designer. Above all an abstract painter, he was close to surrealism in the 1960s and 1970s. He learned fresco techniques with Nicolaï Greschny, ceramics at Sant Vicens and tapestry with Jean Lurçat. In the early 1950s (1950 or earlier), he entered the Sant Vicens workshops to learn ceramics; it was he who initiated Jean Lurçat. Pierre Saint-Paul became his assistant in ceramics, enameled lava (panel for the Maison de la radio in Strasbourg, etc.) and tapestry. During the 1950s, he met Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, who encouraged him in his work.