Large Africanist vase by Jean de Lespinasse, 1960s

Jean de LESPINASSE (1896- 1979)
A member of the Resistance on the Côte d'Azur during the Second World War, Jean de Lespinasse created SOCFRA with his wife, which produced ceramics from the end of the 1940s in Nice. Their path then crossed that of Roger Capron and his wife Jacotte, the Madoura workshops, Robert Picault and Georges Tardieu. He and his wife had shops in Saint-Paul de Vence, Sainte Maxime and Vallauris. All the pieces come from his workshop in Nice, which ceased its activity after his death in 1979. He signs "Jdl". The pieces signed by the Jean de Lespinasse workshop are generally large, nervous and very structured. We note above all a great work in the enamel, between the matt and the shiny, which demonstrates a great mastery of the art of ceramics. Bibliography: "Marques et signatures de la céramique d'art de la Cöte d'Azur" by Jean-Claude Martin, Sudarènes éditions, page 128.