French Cubist Robert LALLEMANT Pair Vases RARE Museum

You are bidding on a Pair of Deco Cubist c.1920 Artist Signed Robert Lallemant Matching Cubist Vases. This is the first time these pieces have been made available to the public for purchase. These RARE Vases are both signed on the base. One has two tiny glaze flakes. The other has a tiny flake on the top outside corner and a tiny glaze line flake. Overall, both are in excellent condition, very clean interiors. After reveiwing Robert Lallemant's extensive web sites, I have gathered these are either very early, or late works of his, due to the lack of painting, and extreme cubist representation in the design. There are no refferences that I have seen, so far, refferring to this artist producing any matching vases. Lots of single vases and lamp bases, which these are clearly not. I consider these RARE. Both the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art hold pieces of pottery by Lallemant in their collections. The vases each measure 6 1/2" long by 6 1/2" tall by 2 1/4" wide. Here is some more general information I found on the web of some interest.

After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Dijon, under the guidance of Ovide YENCESSE, he goes to work at LACHENAL from 1921 to 1922 in order to learn and improve his art as a ceramist. The next year he buys a small workshop of "bleus de Sèvres" at 5 passage d'Orléans in the 13th district of Paris, which he later moved to Quai d'Auteuil. He starts then, with the help of his wife, a very avant-gardiste production. For each of his models he makes a drawing then a plaster on which he keeps working until he gets a perfect shape; then he makes a mould. Sensitive to the graphism of LABOUREUR, LEPAPE or VALMIER, his themes deal with popular songs, sports, vices and virtues, he enjoys painting history, geography or folklore and gets his inspiration from industry. He makes cubist and highly constructed drawings that one can of course also find on his vases and also on lamp-stands enormously successful alone with the rest of his works which the papers of the time greatly praise. A member of UAM (Union of Modern Artists) he is one of the rare modernists with Jean LUCE to have used ceramics in order to create models deeply rooted in the modern vision of the time.;;;;;;; ROBERT LALLEMANT (1902-1954) A ceramist who trained at the Ecole des beaux-Arts in Dijon under the supervision of the sculptor Ovide Yencesse. Robert Lallemant came to Paris and worked without renumeration in a ceramic studio before setting up his own. He spent much time undertaking repeated trials to find forms to mirror the spirit of his time, and also to interpret the industrial sensitivity. His concerns were, first and foremost, centred on materials and forms, and although decoration interested him considerably, he eventually relegated it to second place.

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