JEANNE GRANDPIERRE (1942-2019) Vahiné, circa 1965 Vase. Stoneware. Unsigned. Numerous chips and accidents. Height: 24cm Provenance: Former Former Natacha and Claude Séchoy Collection. JEANNE GRANDPIERRE (1942-2019) Jeanne Grandpierre remains an essential, if little-known, figure among the pioneers of La Borne's ceramic revival - along with Jacqueline Lerat, Élisabeth Joulia and Barbara Delfosse. From 1973 to the early 1980s, she lived in this Mecca of post-war ceramics, alongside her partner Alain Girel, and contributed to the village's reputation by co-organizing the first International Ceramics Symposium. This self-taught artist's work in clay is rooted in the shapes of the female body, in all its fragility. Her wood-fired stoneware sculptures feature busts, breasts and vulvas, sometimes deformed or gnawed.