Mado Jolain, Modernist Pitcher / Vase With Handle In Black White Gray Ceramic, Ca 1950s

Vase or pitcher with added handle by Mado Jolain, ceramic in shape and with abstract modernist decoration, enhanced with black and gray, dating from the 1950s. Rare piece and in perfect condition, signed under the base "mj" for Mado Jolain. Biography: Mado Jolain trained as a ceramist at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. This training allows him to survive, by supplying fashion accessories to Parisian Haute Couture houses. In 1946, she moved with her husband, the painter René Legrand, to a studio on rue d'Alésia. Its production is that of the time: finials and stylized roosters rub shoulders with religious scenes. She participates in the Salon des artistes décorateurs and the Salon de l'Imagerie. Its success is certain. Colette Gueden, the high priestess of L'Atelier Primavera in the Printemps store, calls on her talent. She exhibited regularly in Parisian galleries: L'Arcade, la Porte Etroite or the Galerie du Siècle, or even among decorators such as Sarmadiras or Merceron. In 1955, the prestigious Galerie La Demeure Place Saint-Sulpice presented her work. In the early 1960s, Mado Jolain developed new lines of ceramics for the garden. In 1963, the Cahiers de la Céramique et du Verre reported on the exhibition that the Galerie du Siècle had just devoted to him in Paris. It was not until the year 2000 that the Galerie A Rebours, directed by Patrick Favardin, retrospectively presented the work of this ceramist. In 2016, the Galerie Artrium Thomas Fritsch devoted an exhibition to her and La Revue de la Céramique et du verre published an article on her in September 2016. Alongside her work as a ceramist, Mado Jolain participated in the creation and adventure of art shops. modular objects and furniture for the Quatre Saisons4 house in Paris, then in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence (source Wikipedia).