GEORGES JOUVE (1910-1964) Important 'Coq' Vasecirca 1949glazed terracotta, engraved 'MC ML', underside incised with artist's monogram and 'MADE IN FRANCE'height 15 1/4in (39cm); width 15in (38cm); depth 13in (33cm)

GEORGES JOUVE (1910-1964)
Important 'Coq' Vasecirca 1949glazed terracotta, engraved 'MC ML', underside incised with artist's monogram and 'MADE IN FRANCE'height 15 1/4in (39cm); width 15in (38cm); depth 13in (33cm)

ProvenancePrivate Collection, Los AngelesLiteraturePhilippe Jousse and Galerie Jousse Enterprise, 'Georges Jouve', Paris, 2005, pp. 130-131 for a similar exampleThe rooster appears on several works created by Georges Jouve in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including trays, zoomorphic jugs, and vases. The expressive and almost abstracted rooster on the present vase displays a bold use of color that beautifully contrasts with his signature black glaze on the body and handles of the vase. Born in 1910 and having studied art history and sculpture at the École Boulle in Paris, George Jouve was captured during the Second World War and spent two years in a German camp before escaping to his step-parents house in the south of France. They returned to Paris in 1944 and Jouve opened his own ceramic studio there that same year. He soon became immersed in the artistic milieu of Paris, and became a member of the La Compagnie des Arts Français (CAF), participated at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris, and in various other salons within France and internationally, often alongside works by Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé, with whom he shared a similar artistic sensibility. Celebrated for his organic modernism, his varied subject matter and his diversity of form - tables, wall lights, vases and numerous other objects, Jouve's works became more abstracted in the 1950s and into the 1960s, before his death in 1964.