RENÉ BUTHAUD
VASE - 'La Danse' , c. 1920
Vase depicting three nudes (two women and one man) set against a background of stylised vegetation; a unique piece.
Ovoid form with a constricted neck and flat lip. Executed in glazed ceramic, with a continuous polychrome décor on an ivory ground featuring a fine crackled mesh.
Ovoid form with a constricted neck and flat lip. Executed in glazed ceramic, with a continuous polychrome décor on an ivory ground featuring a fine crackled mesh.
H 39 cm.
H 15 3/8 in.
H 15 3/8 in.
Signed ‘R. BUTHAUD’ and bearing an old label—likely from an exhibition—under the base.
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Bibliographie
Collective volume edited by Emmanuel Bréon and France Cruège de Forceville – René Buthaud, 1886–1986 – Art Deco Ceramist, catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin (May 14 – September 17, 2023), Éditions Norma, Paris, 2023. Our vase reproduced on page 48.
L’Amour de l’Art, no. 10, 1921. A slight variant reproduced on page 308.
Pierre Cruège – René Buthaud (1886–1986), Les Éditions de l’Amateur, Paris, 1996. Model reproduced on pp. 80 and 82.