ÉLISABETH JOULIA (1925-2003) - Lot 113

ÉLISABETH JOULIA (1925-2003) Verseuse à ailettes. Stoneware. A very slight chip on the inside of the lip of the base receiving the lid. Signed JOULIA under the base. Height: 12cm - Length: 16cm Provenance: Former Former Jacques and Josette Barbier Collection. Exhibition: N6-N7 - Les Nationales de la Céramique - Écomusée de la Bresse bourguignonne, Château de Pierre-de-Bresse, from April 4 to December 20, 2015. Our work exhibited at this event. ÉLISABETH JOULIA (1925-2003) Initially trained as a fresco artist, Élisabeth Joulia discovered ceramics with Jean Lerat before settling in 1949 in La Borne, a major stoneware center, where she would become one of the leading figures. Rejecting convention, she developed an instinctive and organic practice, based on direct work with clay, modeled exclusively by hand. Her work is rooted in a sensitive abstraction that resonates with nature and the body, often the female form. Through emblematic series - Chestnuts, Hatching, Almonds - she explores the essence of forms and living things. From the 1970s onwards, her volumes gained in breadth and sensuality, then became purer with the introduction of white stoneware. A key figure in post-war ceramics, her work, nourished by spirituality and travel, tends towards the universal.