Biography

Gustave Reynaud, France (1915-1972)

French ceramist who worked in Vallauris.

Gustave Reynaud is documented from 1956 in Vallauris; he founded the Le Murier pottery there, and sold table services based on the models of his brother-in-law Jean Derval; he works with the turner J-F Descombes, and the decorator Michel Barbier.

His ceramics present a stylized plant or animal decoration with a slightly naive charm; sometimes extraordinary animals, highlighted by red copper enamels fired in reduction around 1100°, or cobalt blue on a gray-beige background.