Robert Deblander
The reputation of Robert Deblander (1924–2010) is well established in France and abroad. The taut, monochrome classicism of his stoneware firmly secured his place in the avant-garde, alongside his peers Elisabeth Joulia, Jean Lerat and Antoine de Vinck.
A leading figure in contemporary ceramics, Robert Deblander is among those ceramists whose work stands as one of the most accomplished expressions of French ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century.
« Robert Deblander is one of the great French ceramists. His thrown and shaped pieces defined a new classicism in ceramics during the second half of the twentieth century. A complete artist and an independent figure, he distinguished himself through emblematic stoneware and porcelain pottery forms, and through a subtle chromatic range of monochrome glazes. His rounded or breakwater-shaped vases, with their precise, highly architectural profiles, literally cut through the space into which they are integrated, and even appear to be a fragment of it.»
Carole Andréani - Revue de la Céramique et du Verre - N° 169 Nov/Dec. 2009.
Public and private collections
- Musée National Adrien Dubouché, Limoges
- Musée Cantini Marseille
- Prefecture of Nevers
- Gueromore Museum, Cologne, Germany
- Frac Languedoc
- Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
- Académie Internationale de Céramique
- Musée national d’art moderne de Tokyo
- Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
- Frac Limousin
- Musée National de Sèvres
- Frac Languedoc-Roussillon
- Musée Bernard Palissy, Saint-Avit
- Melun City, red Chawan cup
- Nombreuses pièces dans la collection de Charles Adrien Buéno, dans la collection Fina Gomez et dans la collection Maurice Lambiotte.
Solo exhibition at the gallery
Robert Deblander
Works
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2009
Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy (Yonne), with Martine Damas
2008
« Tableaux des temps », Galerie Pierre, Paris,
Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy (Yonne), with Anima Roos
2007
Galerie Pierre, Paris, "SURVOL" 1956 - 2000.
2006
« Porcelaines » Galerie Pierre, Paris
2004
« Retour sur le passé « , Galerie Pierre, Paris
« Bols chawans », Espace St-Jean, Melun
2003
« Chawans », Galerie Pierre, Paris
Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, Yonne
2002
« Bleus », Galerie Pierre, Paris
2001
Retrospective at the Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres.
Sèvres, November 2001 to February 2002
1997
Galerie Geneviève Godard, Lille (Nord)
Galerie Sarver, Paris
1995
Galerie Hamelin, Honfleur
1994
Galerie Sarver, Paris
1950-1957 Decorated earthenware, Villiers-Saint-Benoît (Yonne) museum
1992
Galerie Sarver, Paris
1991
Galerie 18, Brussels
