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Jean BESNARD attribued to, Glazed ceramic lamp, Art Deco era, France circa 1930s

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Very pretty table lamp in glazed and textured ceramic, the belly is decorated with friezes of wavelets. Work attributed to the French ceramic artist Jean Besnard, Art Deco period. The lamp is in very good condition, wear consistent with age and use. Height without lampshade and without the electrical socket, 12.60" / 32 cm. Diameter at the largest, 6.70" / 17 cm. The lamp is sold without the lampshade, the electrical socket is original (I can replace it with a recent electrical socket), the electrical plug is to European standards (for the USA it will be necessary to replace it). France, circa 1930 About the artist. Jean Besnard was born in Paris in 1889. His father Alain Besnard is a famous painter, and his mother Charlotte Dubray is a sculptor. This ancestry undoubtedly conditioned a taste for creation and an artistic sensitivity that Besnard would quickly direct towards ceramics. The artist would often say that the choice of this medium came to him from childhood and family holidays in Savoy, Italy (in Volterra in particular), Egypt or India. With whatever the destination an admiration for these creations resulting from simple, rough, unadorned techniques. The potter here joins the poet in this feeling that "To create is always to speak of childhood." Devoting himself entirely to ceramics, this profession that attracts him for its purity, that of transforming the material by the mastery of fire, Besnard was initiated by the ceramists Paul Jacquet and Étienne Avenard. His first pieces are utilitarian, rustic, like those seen in his childhood. These early achievements will evolve towards a ceramic production of a new character and marked by his identity when he joins Avenard in his workshop in Ville-d'Avray. In 1922, the Primavera art studio published his creations for Le Printemps and, from 1923, Jean Besnard exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. At the 1925 Paris Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts, the artist received a silver medal. The same year, the ceramist created his company - Besnard et Cie - where he set up workshops and kilns in the factory of the ceramic engineer Paul Sailly, in Ivry-Port. There, he developed his enamels towards an atypical and personal palette that includes ochre, greens, pinks but also platinum and "the fire of gold." In 1927, Jean Besnard even invented a new "crisp" enamel, which gave ceramics a granite appearance similar to shagreen and made him famous, particularly by covering the "masks" he made from 1930. Under these superpositions of enamels, his forms also asserted themselves. Attached to traditional gestures, Besnard never molded his pieces but turned them like generations of potters before him. The contours of these pieces were therefore simple but robust and allowed him to experiment with numerous decoration techniques. This is how Jean Besnard engraved his clay with notches and streaks on which the hues and light played, drawing inspiration from pointillism and impressionist painting, but also from Nature, which he made run in stylized animal and plant forms on the bellies of his vases. The artist died at the age of 69 in Nogent-sur-Marne, in November 1958. His ceramics are now present in the collections of the Musée du Luxembourg, the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Humble and passionate, Jean Besnard is the link between the tradition and modernity of his time. Of a rare depth under a sometimes crude exterior, his clay work is "a delicious anarchy; full of discoveries has forever distanced this master craftsman from all classicism and that is very good."

Attributed to:

Jean Besnard (Artist)

Dimensions:

Height: 12.6 in (32 cm)Diameter: 6.7 in (17 cm)

Power Source:

Hardwired

Lampshade:

Not Included

Style:

Art Deco (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Ceramic,Glazed,Hand-Carved,Hand-Crafted

Place of Origin:

France

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1930

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

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