Large Ceramic Fruit Bowl by Mado Jolain, circa 1960

We hear that green is fashion! We've always loved it, especially the beautiful glaze by Mado Jolain, a great French ceramicist whose pots have been very successful with the Benoit Gu...

Set of three ceramic bottles by the acclaimed French ceramist Roger Capron, a key figure in the ceramic movement in Vallauris from the 1950s onward. A hallmark of Capron's artistry,...

Small pinched ceramic bowl by French artist Mado Jolain (1921–2019), dating from the 1950s and signed "MJ" on the underside. A renowned ceramicist and designer, Mado Jolain was celeb...

Stunning anthropomorphic ceramic vase by Mado JOLAIN, France, 1950s. Stoneware vase very close to Picasso's production, in terms of colors and design. Height : 9.1"(23.2cm), Diameter : 5"(12.6cm). Signed "m.j" under the base (see photos). Mado Jolain was born in Paris in 1921. Under the Occupation, she joined the Paris School of Decorative Arts and the drawing and sculpture workshops of La Grande Chaumière. There she met René Legrand who turned more towards painting. Sensitized by the craze for ceramics which began before the war, Mado Jolain carried out her first attempts as a potter in the kiln of a utilitarian ceramics workshop, rue d'Alesia. In 1946, Mado Jolain and René Legrand married and moved to Montrouge where René set up his painting studio. The ceramic workshop is not far away, in the 14th arrondissement. René Legrand shoots their first plays. Popular art, very popular in the decorative arts of the post-war period, was a great source of inspiration for them. They visit the Dijon Museum and the Museum of Popular Art and Traditions where they appreciate the shapes of utilitarian pottery. In 1948, creations from the Mado Jolain workshop were exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Ateliers d'Art Décoratifs and at L'objet 1948, a landmark exhibition after the war, organized at the Galerie Denise Breteau, rue Bonaparte , Paris. In 1950, the Mado Jolain ceramic workshop moved to Montrouge. René Legrand devoted himself more and more to painting, Klaus Schultze...