JEAN LINARD (1931-2010) - Lot 86

JEAN LINARD (1931-2010) Untitled, sometimes called Vase Poisson Exceptional and spectacular flat vase. Stoneware proof. Circa 1970. Signed LINARD on a ridge near the base. Height: 72cm - Length: 72cm Exhibition: Traits d'union - 70 ans d'expression céramique française (1947-2017) - Hospice de Malrigou, Saint-Jean-d'Estissac, June 1-3, July 21-29 and August 19-26, 2018. Our work exhibited during this event. Exhibition and related work: Les métiers de l'art - Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1980. A work very close to our vase presented at this event. Bibliography: - Robert Chatton et Henri Talbot - Potiers d'aujourd'hui au Pays de La Borne - Éditions Delayance, La Charité-sur-Loire, 1980. Our work or a slight variant reproduced on page 103. - Philippe Chambost, Pascal Marziano and Arnaud Serpollet - 1947-2017, 70 ans d'expression céramique française - Éditions Les livres de l'îlot, Neuvic, 2020. Our work reproduced on page 227. Bibliography and related works: Collectif - Les métiers de l'art - Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1980, museum edition, 1980. A work very similar to our vase is shown on page 253. Jean Linard studied engraving at the École Estienne in Paris from 1945 to 1949. In 1959, his fascination with ceramics led him to settle in La Borne, where he worked as a potter with ceramist Anne Kjærsgaard (1933-1990), who became his wife in 1964. His work is characterized by a great variety of materials and forms. He created pieces with a structure often enriched by juxtapositions of different materials and a subtle interplay of different glazes and colors. A colorful character, like his work. Linard was a potter, sculptor, painter and builder with a very singular universe akin to Art Brut - his Cathedral at Neuvy-Deux-Clochers in the Cher region, which he built over several decades, is the most eloquent testimony to this.