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a glass vase with a face on it sitting on top of a tablean image of a vase with a bird head on ita vase with a painting on it sitting on a tablean orange and white vase sitting on top of a white surface
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
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Jules AGARD Double spout – 1975 Painted terracotta ceramic Incised signature and date 24.50 × 30 × 90 cm Hand-painted ceramic; incised signature and date 9.65 × 11.82 × 3.55 in. Born in Vallauris on 4 December 1905, Jules Agard is reputed to be one of the finest potters of the golden age of the ‘village of a hundred potters’. He began his training at the age of 16 at Jérôme Massier’s workshop, where he worked alongside the many potters in the studio, each specialising in a particular type of form. Thanks to his keen eye for detail – ‘this craft cannot be learnt, it must be observed’, as the young Agard used to say – he became a seasoned potter within a few years. In the late 1930s, the crisis in the domestic pottery industry led to him losing his job; in 1938–1939 he found a post as a potter specialising in forms at Suzanne Ramié’s Madoura workshop. From 1947 onwards, Picasso worked regularly at the workshop and needed a dedicated potter: Agard quite naturally secured this position. He remained ‘Picasso’s potter’ for twenty-two years. Jules Agard left Madoura in 1970 and, until the end of his life, devoted himself to his own work at the Poterie des Noisetiers, in the Vallauris countryside: vases, dishes and, above all, a bestiary of skilfully distorted forms, coated in the varied and colourful engobes that are his hallmark. Jules AGARD
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About the sale Earth & Fire: Ceramics
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Auction time 10/23/2026 at 4:00 PM
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