THE CLOUTIER BROTHERS - JEAN & ROBERT CLOUTIER (1930-201 - Lot 26

THE CLOUTIER BROTHERS - JEAN & ROBERT CLOUTIER (1930-2015) & (1930-2008) - FORMER PATRICK FAVARDIN COLLECTION Owl Anthropomorphic box. Glazed ceramic base; black outside, red inside. The top in woven wicker, the handle featuring the head of the bird of prey in glazed ceramic; black, red. Signed CLOUTIER R.J. under the base. Height: 21cm - Diameter: 23cm Provenance: Patrick Favardin Collection: - Patrick Favardin Collection. - Galerie Riviera, Nice. Exhibition: Les Trente Glorieuses - Collection Pascal Marziano1950-1980. Un timbré de céramique -Musée de la Poterie Méditerranéenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, April 5 to October 25, 2020. Our work exhibited at this event. Bibliography: Patrick Favardin - Les frères Cloutier Céramistes et sculpteurs - Éditions Norma, Paris, 2014. Our work reproduced on page 42. Jean and Robert Cloutier, twins, are the authors of an original, prolific and varied ceramic production, ranging from utilitarian and decorative objects to interior architecture. Their work, apparently naïve and constantly reinventing itself, in fact conceals a certain poetry, freedom and creative continuity. Trained by Georges Jouve (1910-1964) and Pol Chambost (1906-1983), they opened their own studio in 1955. Combining their technical mastery with their boundless imagination, they developed a singular visual universe which, while evoking the work of Jouve, Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957) and Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), quickly asserted itself as unique and personal. Their great creative freedom, combined with the technical know-how they had acquired from the great ceramists of their time, resulted in high-quality works with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic or hybrid decoration or form - most often treated in monochrome or bichrome, with characteristic red-glazed interiors - that met with great success. True explorers and incomparable creators, the Cloutier brothers were key players in the post-war revival of ceramics.