Odetta Vase With Art-deco Handles By Georges Renaud - Manufacture Hb Quimper - Brittany

HB Quimper Manufacture. Polychrome sandstone, circa 1930, from the Odetta period. Height 23 cm.

Georges Renaud (1904-1994), born in Paris in 1901. He apprenticed at a very young age with a cabinetmaker on Faubourg Saint-Antoine then was hired by a sculptor on rue Léon-Frot, whose workshop he bought upon his death. of the last. Specializing in bronze work, we owe him in particular the renovation of the large candelabra of the Alexandre III bridge in Paris. It was through François Bazin that he joined the HB Grande Maison factory in 1928. With René Beauclair, he best illustrated the aesthetic renewal of the Odetta period. He received a gold medal during the colonial exhibition of 1931. In 1939 Georges Renaud created the series of pitchers with the effigies of American presidents. After the war and until 1972, he continued to go to Quimper where he explored all aspects of Brittany, its professions, its landscapes, with this very particular relief rendering. It was he who created in 1961 the two figures which still frame the entrance to the HB Henriot earthenware factory today.