JEAN DERVAL (1925-2010) & ATELIER MADOURA Zoomorphic box. Polychrome glazed ceramic - the base depicts a fantastic animal, the lid handle a peacock. Marked MADOURA under the base. Height: 15cm - Length: 22cm Provenance: Galerie Artocarpus: Galerie Artocarpus. Please note: This is a rare work executed by the artist at the Madoura studio, when he was employed there between 1949 and 1951. Exhibition: Jean Derval - Le trait et le volume - Musée Magnelli, Musée de la céramique, Vallauris, from March 8 to June 9, 2025. Our work exhibited at this event. Bibliography: Et l'Arche de Noé fit escale à Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie - Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Musée de la Poterie Méditerranéenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie (April 2 - October 29, 2023), Éditions Musée de la Poterie Méditerranéenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, 2023. Our work reproduced on page 54. JEAN DERVAL (1925-2010) Jean Derval graduated from the École des Arts appliqués in Paris in 1944, and discovered ceramics in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, before moving to Vallauris in 1947 to work alongside Capron and Picault, and later for the Madoura studio and Picasso. In 1951, he opened his own studio. His works cover a range of motifs, from religious, mythological, figurative and fantastical figures to more abstract, graphic decorations. The classical forms of the ancient tradition are overturned in his works by a cubist distortion, giving rise to highly varied and refined creations, which evolve in the 1960s towards more sculptural and architectural works.