ALEXANDRE KOSTANDA (1921-2007) - ATELIER GIRAUD IN VALLAURIS Vase-pichet. Polychrome glazed ceramic. Signed A. KOSTANDA - GIRAUD Vallauris under the base. Height: 40cm Provenance: Galerie Marie-Pascale Suhard Galerie Marie-Pascale Suhard, La-Ferrière-sur-Risle. Exhibition: N6-N7 - Les Nationales de la Céramique - Écomusée de la Bresse bourguignonne, Château de Pierre-de-Bresse, April 4 to December 20, 2015. Our work exhibited at this event. ALEXANDRE KOSTANDA (1921-2007) Alexandre Kostanda was one of the most dynamic figures in French ceramics. A teacher and mentor to Daniel de Montmollin and the founding artists of Poterie d'Accolay, as well as head of Louis Giraud's workshop, he was a driving force in the transmission and promotion of art - notably co-founding the Vallauris International Ceramic Biennial. At the same time, he opened his own workshop in Vallauris in 1953, where he specialized in the production of stoneware pieces with singular shapes, decorated with a variety of incised motifs, rendered in a characteristic muted chromatic range.