Bookends To Sailors By André Galland - Brittany

Manufacture Henriot, polychrome earthenware, circa 1930. Height 17 cm.

André Galland, the son of a cloth manufacturer, was a French draughtsman and illustrator. He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1933, in recognition of a body of work that influenced his era. An eclectic artist, he also created earthenware, posters and lithographs that are sought-after by collectors today.
After studying at the Collège Rollin, the Arts Décoratifs and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he gave up preparing for the Prix de Rome to start working. He turned to the press, and owed his first experience as a sketch artist to Paul Renouard. A few years later, he became his pupil at the Arts décoratifs. He knew how to make the most of an original method of drawing, known as ‘bone points’, which produced real pencil reporters, skilled at photographing an animated scene in the blink of an eye. Galland describes himself as a ‘sketch reporter’. In fact, this is the very spirit of his work at Manufacture Henriot.