This is a gorgeous Rosenthal bowl, art pottery, signed by Gilbert Portanier. The bowl is 8½"/22 cm in diameter and is 2"/5 cm high. There are no chips, cracks or crazing on the bowl.
Gilbert Portanier:
In 1948, Gilbert Portanier, a painter, discovered clay as a material to work with at Vallauris, the ceramics centre in the south of France. There he developed his unique style in the medium. What is so significant about his early work is his mastery of drawing on pottery. In the early years, Portanier 'drew' with the brush on his pieces mainly Arcadian genre scenes inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity. On the look-out for new color combinations, color textures and color compositions, however, Portanier gradually distanced himself outlet from drawing and switched to free painting on ceramics.'Every one of his pieces belongs in a museum,' thus Picasso commenting on Gilbert Portanier's 'painterly ceramics'. And indeed Portanier, like no other, conjures colorful, surrealist abstract-figurative paintings on the ceramics he has designed.
Product code: Rosenthal bowl, outlet art pottery, signed by Gilbert Portanier