Picasso Vallauris Ceramics

The 25 years which picasso spent on the côte d azur starting with his move to vallauris in 1948 until his death in mougins on 8 april 1973 were those of a great star.

Picasso vallauris ceramics. In july 1946 picasso visited vallauris france for the first time in the company of françoise gilot mother of claude. He took a particular interest in the madoura stand and asked to be introduced to the owners suzanne and georges ramié. The pottery and gallery madoura edits and exhibits picasso s edited ceramic work. In 1946 picasso in golfe juan with his friend louis fort decided to visit the pottery exhibition in vallauris.

Whilst on holiday in golfe juan with françoise gilot in 1946 picasso visited the annual pottery exhibition. The arrival of picasso in the 1950s raised vallauris to the rank of ceramic capital of france as he brought in many artists wanting to learn about the fired arts. Today only a handful of craftspeople still uphold this tradition. Picasso himself as well as chagall and miró created a wide range of models ushering in a new era for ceramics.

Pablo picasso was undoubtedly an extraordinary 20th century painter but i also feel that in the field of abstract impressionism his ceramics were also remarkable. After he left vallauris for cannes and then for mougins he continued his ceramic work and his collaboration with madoura until his death in 1973. A freeman of the town picasso greatly contributed to the renaissance of the vallauris pottery industry in the 1950s this legendary golden age when everyone was a potter including famous ceramicists roger capron and charles voltz. He became so enthralled with ceramics that he decided to move to vallauris to pursue his new.

The small coastal town was known for its pottery and picasso quickly became enamored with the ceramics being produced by the atelier madoura owned by suzanne and georges ramié. In 1946 while visiting the annual pottery exhibition in vallauris pablo picasso had the good fortune to meet suzanne and georges ramie. In a room adjacent to the museum of ceramics the photographs by andré villers represent picasso either as a public personage attending public events and feasts or working alone in his studio as a man fully integrated with the community of vallauris which made him an honorary citizen in 1950.