64 - Jacques Pouchain (1925–2015)

Jacques Pouchain (1925–2015) Still Life Plate Glazed ceramic with still life decoration 1955, Poët-Laval period H32 L22.1 cm In very good original condition Jacques Pouchain was a French ceramicist who notably modernized the Coursange pottery schools in Poët-Laval. His work is part of the French ceramics movement of the 1950s, alongside that of Georges Jouve, Roger Capron, Jean Derval, and Robert Picault. Based in Le Poët-Laval, in the Drôme department, near the pottery center of Dieulefit, Jacques Pouchain contributed to the postwar revival of French ceramics. His work stands alongside that of Georges Jouve, Roger Capron, Jean Derval, and Robert Picault, who at the time were transforming ceramics into a field of modern experimentation. This dish interprets the still life—a classic genre of painting—using the vocabulary of its time: simplified forms, outlines, and solid areas of glaze. A piece dated 1955, from the heart of the Poët-Laval period.