ROLAND BRICE (1911-1989) - Lot 29

ROLAND BRICE (1911-1989) L'Oiseau, 1967, proof numbered 32/50 and dedicated Édition de l'amitié pour Maurice et Gilberte Wall bas-relief. Polychrome glazed ceramic. Small scattered chips. Signed and dated BRICE (19)67 on the edge and Édition de l'amitié 32/50 pour Maurice et Gilberte - Roland - Raymonde on the reverse. 23 x 29cm Bibliography: Philippe Chambost, Pascal Marziano and Arnaud Serpollet - 1947-2017, 70 ans d'expression céramique française - Éditions Les livres de l'îlot, Neuvic, 2020. Our work reproduced on page 179. ROLAND BRICE (1911-1989) Fernand Léger's ceramist-practitioner, Roland Brice was first and foremost the man who, through his mastery and technical knowledge, was able to take the Cubist painter's universe out of the canvas and make it accessible to all. The plastic possibilities of clay, manipulated by Brice, accentuate the synthesizing and geometrizing of forms, as well as the power of contrasts, inseparable from his artistic language. The "polychrome sculptures" Léger and Brice created together combine three indispensable elements: color, volume and architecture. After Léger's death, Brice continued this quest, developing his own artistic language, also marked by modernity.