Picasso Vallauris Ceramics

He took a particular interest in the madoura stand and asked to be introduced to the owners suzanne and georges ramié.

Picasso vallauris 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. 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. Many inhabitants still evoke his presence and that of his contemporaries françoise gilot and her children. Picasso himself as well as chagall and miró created a wide range of models ushering in a new era for ceramics.

Today only a handful of craftspeople still uphold this tradition. 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. In 1946 while visiting the annual pottery exhibition in vallauris pablo picasso had the good fortune to meet suzanne and georges ramie. All of picasso s ceramics were produced at the madoura pottery run by the ramie family in vallauris in the south of france.

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. In 1946 picasso in golfe juan with his friend louis fort decided to visit the pottery exhibition in vallauris. 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. Whilst on holiday in golfe juan with françoise gilot in 1946 picasso visited the annual pottery exhibition.

He became so enthralled with ceramics that he decided to move to vallauris to pursue his new. In july 1946 picasso visited vallauris france for the first time in the company of françoise gilot mother of claude. The ramies owned the madoura workshop a ceramics studio in vallauris where picasso who was eager to delve into a new medium made his first venture into ceramics.