*Gilbert Portanier*Listed Master Ceramist Mid Century French Art Pottery Platter

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RARE ITEM PLATTER! Gilbert Portanier* Master Listed French Artist Ceramist Mid-Century Art Pottery Platter. Free Hand Painting ON Front by Artist. Signed On Verso By Artist. There is a glaze drip done during manufacturing and on the 4:00 clock area a slight indentation done during manufacturing process,glaze over top indentation which have no ion the fantastic piece of art by this master ceramist artist. EXCELLENT CONDITION! MEASURES: 19 1/2" x 12 1/4". PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE!------In 1948, Gilbert Portanier, a painter, discovered clay as a material to work with at Vallauris, the ceramics centre in the south of France. There he developed his unique style in the medium. What is so significant about his early work is his mastery of drawing on pottery. In the early years, Portanier “drew” with the brush on his pieces mainly Arcadian genre scenes inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity. On the look-out for new colour combinations, colour textures and colour compositions, however, Portanier gradually distanced himself from drawing and switched to free painting on ceramics. “Every one of his pieces belongs in a museum,” thus Picasso commenting on Gilbert Portanier’s “painterly ceramics”. And indeed Portanier, like no other, conjures colourful, surrealist abstract-figurative paintings on the ceramics he has designed.
In his pieces, the “Mediterranean delight” in representing and communicating comes into its own. The inexhaustible riches of Portanier’s teeming imagination are unique in the international ceramics scene, a status that has been justly rewarded with -numerous international prizes and awards and is now being showcased in this comprehensive monograph.Portanier Gilbert, born on 28 September 1926 in Cannes , is a ceramist French.
He is among those who contributed to the revival of the French ceramic 1950s to Vallauris .
Gilbert Portanier high school education on the French Riviera . Around the age of 17, he feels rising within him a taste of the arts. In 1945 , he moved to Paris to study architecture at the ENSBA . He quickly turned to painting and drawing it soon will consider an autodidact.
In 1948 , after a stay in Brussels, he returned to the French Riviera, where, during a visit to Vallauris, he discovered the world of ceramics and meets Picasso . In 1949 , he created with his friends Albert Diato and Francine Del Pierre , a small workshop, which they call "The Triptych", where they begin together a self-taught ceramics.
In 1954 , he settled in a traditional pottery where it will have large workshops, is a mythical place of ceramics where all the possibilities of a virgin art available to him. He learned many techniques related to it and creates its own figurative language, abstract, suggestive, materialized by a versatile graphics great freedom. His color palette betrayed by its richness and its intensity the painter's sensibility. For Portanier, ceramic is a way to express the feelings, emotions, the pleasures of life. This is a colorist and a connoisseur of enamel, as a virtuoso of the drawing.
In 1964, Gilbert Portanier is related to the German porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal , for whom he will soon create very original models (where we find his name) who know a great international success. From 1966 to 2009, he exhibited regularly in the Rosenthal Studio-Haüser Hamburg, Bochum, Dortmund, Cologne, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Paris, Milan, Geneva, Amsterdam ...
From the 1950s , Gilbert Portanier operates the game dullness and brightness versus a matte glaze, on which he rests his decor, and glossy enamel colors.
In 1980 , he abandoned the white enamel and deepens the work of oxides in freely placing them on a white paste that puts them in value.
Some awards [ edit the code ]
1966 : Gold Medal of the International Ceramics Exhibition, Brussels
Grand Prix of the International Ceramics Biennial, Faenza
Gold Medal of the Munich Fair
1982 : Grand Prix of the International Ceramics Biennial, Vallauris
Some notable exhibitions [ edit the code ]
1954 : Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
1963 : Kunstgewerbe Museum (Museum für Angewandte Kunst today), Cologne
1964 : Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
1985 : Retrospective at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
1998 : Retrospective at the National Ceramics Museum , Sèvres
1999 : Retrospective at the Modern Art Museum, Troyes
Retrospective at the Municipal Museum of ceramics and modern art, Vallauris
2006 : Chapel of Mercy, Vallauris
Peter Siemssen Stiftung Ratzbek (Lübeck)
Porzellan Museum, Selb
2009 : Keramion Stiftung, Frechen (Cologne)
Peter Siemssen Stiftung Ratzbek (Lübeck)