The name "pottery of Vallauris" includes ceramic production workshops and factories installed in the Vallauris area from the late nineteenth century around the personality of Picasso.
The arrival of Suzanne Ramie, André Baud, Roger Capron, Alice Colonieu, Robert Picault, Jean Derval, Henry Grailhe or Juliette Mazaudois marks the revival of the l...
The name "pottery of Vallauris" includes ceramic production workshops and factories installed in the Vallauris area from the late nineteenth century around the personality of Picasso.
The arrival of Suzanne Ramie, André Baud, Roger Capron, Alice Colonieu, Robert Picault, Jean Derval, Henry Grailhe or Juliette Mazaudois marks the revival of the local ceramics. The first exhibition of Vallauris potters in 1946, organized by the workshop Madura André Baud and Callis workshop (Capron and Picault), is the starting point of a new era characterized by a wide variety of styles.
The presence of Picasso in Vallauris amplifies the movement and attracted other artists, painters or sculptors who came to try to ceramics. Stimulates Picasso, for his creative power, the emergence of real potters. An innovative mind blowing Vallauris. The first national ceramic competition is established in 1966 in order to assert and maintain the quality of the production. Exhibitions multiply, devoted to the history of the arts of fire, the first biennial is organized in 1968.
