Robert DEBLANDER (1924-2010) - Lot 4

Robert DEBLANDER (1924-2010) Large ovoid vase with shoulder in blue enameled porcelain with abstract motifs in resèrve. Circa 2000. Signed DEBLANDER under the base, stamped with a star towards the base and numbered B4N1. Height: 30.5 cm - Diameter: 12 cm Biography: Born in Paris, Robert Deblander graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. He devoted his entire life to stoneware ceramics, of which he was one of the leaders of the post-war renaissance, and then to porcelain. Throughout his immense career, he wrote extensively on the aesthetics of ceramics and contemporary ceramists. A leading figure in contemporary ceramics, Robert Deblander is one of those ceramists whose work is the most accomplished expression of French ceramic art in the second half of the 20th century. His work is marked by a desire for transcendence and surpassing that are the very foundations of art. Source: Galerie de l'ancienne Poste